The restrooms on the 103rd floor of the Willis (Sears) Tower, at 1,353 feet (412.4 m) high, are the highest in the Western Hemisphere, relative to street level
The 'loneliest organism' in the world. A single, lone cycad tree, the dominant tree during the dinosaur era, was discovered in Africa in 1895. They have yet to find a mate to pollinate it.
There is a town called "Tweebuffelsmeteenskootmorsdoodgeskietfontein" in South Africa that translates to "The spring where two buffaloes were shot stone dead with a single bullet"