Skip to content- Second US president to win Nobel Prize Woodrow Wilson
- Shortest coastline Monaco (3.49 miles) Shortest day of year 22nd December
- Shortest person Younis Edwan (2 ft 1.6 inches)
- Shortest Presidency of a US President ` William Henry Harrison (31 days) died of Pneumonia
- Shortest river Roe River (201 ft)
- Shortest reign as British Queen ` Lady Jane Grey (9 days)
- Shortest reign as Monarch ` Luis Filipe Crown Prince of Portugal20 minutes
- Slowest Animal Snail (2 to feet per minute)
- Slowest growing tree White cedar
- Slowest creature Conch-Shell (Shellfish-snail)
- Slowest planet Pluto
- Smallest Animal Sloth
- Smallest Bird Hummingbird
- Smallest bone in human body Stapes or Stirrup bone in middle ear
- Smallest continent Australia
- Smallest country of Africa ` Gambia
- Smallest country of former Soviet Republics
Armenia
Smallest Islamic Country
Maldives (300 sq. km)- Smallest mammal Pygmy Shrew (2.5 g)
- Smallest ocean Indian Ocean
- Smallest planet Pluto, diameter 2320 km
- Smallest state of UAE Ajman
- Smallest Satellite Deimos
- Smallest Star Neutron Stars
- Speed of tortoise 4.6 meter in a minute
- Strongest bone in human body Femur
- Strongest muscles in human body Jaw
- Tallest Animal Giraffe
- Tallest bird Ostrich
- Tallest man Robert Pershing Wadlow (8 ft 11 inches)
- Theory of Evolution Charles Darwin
- Theory of Isotopes Soddy
- Theory of Natural Selection Charles Robert Darwin
- Theory of Relativity *** Albert Einstein
- Theory of rise and fall of societies Ibn-e-Khaldun (In the preface of his book “Kitab-ul-Ibrar”)
- Third highest peak of the world Kanchenjunga (Nepal-India, 28, 208 feet)
- Third largest country China (36, 91, 314 sq. miles)
- Third largest lake Lake Victoria (Kenya-Tanzania and Uganda)
- Third longest river of the world *** ` Yangtze Kiang (China)
- Third most populous city Sao Paulo (Brazil)
- Third Reich (1933-1945) Dictatorship of Hitler in Germany
- Unit of electric current Ampere
- Unit of electrical resistance Ohm Unit of electric power Watt
- Upper house of British Parliament *** House of lords
- Upper house of German Parliament Bundesrat