25 Facts About The World’s Shortest

1. The shortest war in history was between Britain and Zanzibar on August 27, 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38-45 minutes.
2. The shortest reigning monarch in history was Louis-Antoine of France, who was king for just 20 minutes.
3. The shortest performance to win an Oscar was Beatrice Straight’s 5-minute performance in Network (1976).
4. The shortest poem is “Fleas” by Strickland Gillilan: “Adam / Had’em.”
5. The shortest professional basketball player is Tyrone ‘Muggsy’ Bogues, who is 5’3″ tall.
6. The shortest day of the year is December 21st or 22nd, also known as the winter solstice in the Northern Hemisphere.
7. The shortest river is the Roe River, just 61 meters long, in the USA.
8. The shortest place name is ‘Å’, a village in both Sweden and Norway.
9. The shortest English word that contains all five vowels is “iouea,” a taxonomic genus within the phylum Porifera.
10. The shortest sentence in the English language is “Go.”
11. The shortest National Anthem is the Japanese National Anthem, “Kimigayo.”
12. The shortest escalator is in the basement of More’s Department store in Kawasaki, Japan. It has only 5 steps.
13. The shortest performance to win a Grammy was “Hard Rock Bottom Of Your Heart” by Randy Travis, lasting 1.29 seconds.
14. The shortest international border is between Spain and Gibraltar, at 1.2 km long.
15. The shortest constitution in the world belongs to Monaco.
16. The shortest-serving U.S. President was William Henry Harrison, serving only 32 days in 1841.
17. The shortest highway is Route 375 in Nevada, USA, known as the “Extraterrestrial Highway,” measuring only 98 miles.
18. The shortest tongue belongs to an Australian cattle dog named Toby, with a tongue measuring only 4.87 inches.
19. The shortest scheduled flight in the world takes 1.5 minutes and covers 2.7 km from Westray to Papa Westray in the Orkney Islands.
20. The shortest professional baseball player was Eddie Gaedel, who was 3’7″ tall.
21. The shortest Nobel Prize speech was Le Duc Tho’s, who refused the Peace Prize in 1973.
22. The shortest novel is “The Dinosaur” by Augusto Monterroso.
23. The shortest tennis match lasted 20 minutes when Susan Tutt beat Marion Bandy 6-0, 6-0.
24. The shortest commercially released song is “You Suffer” by Napalm Death, with a length of only 1.316 seconds.
25. The shortest professional football player was Jack Shapiro, who was 5’1″ tall.

Originally posted 2023-09-15 21:32:11.

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