- Dalam daerah Padang Terap, Kedah
- Tasik buatan terbesar di Kedah
- Luas : 52km persedi
- Kemuncak air kering – Julai tahun tertentu
- Tujuan pembekalan air kepada petani Kedah, Perlis dan Pulau Pinang
At a depth of 50m (164 feet) there is a grave at the bottom of Lake Pedu. This grave will appear every 4-5 years. The construction of the Pedu Dam sacrificed 15 villages to build an artificial lake in 1969
Source : Majalah 3, TV3, Sept 2024
In 1967 it rained continuously in Kelantan for 10 days
source : Astro Awani
Dubai Miracle Garden is the largest natural flower garden in the world. It has more than 150 million flowers.
UAE has proposed a futuristic project to build a subsea rail connection to India (Mumbai) with plans for completion by the end of 2030
20 countries which have no river
After 7 months of the Hamas-Israeli war, UN officials reported that the Gaza conflict would take 14 years to clear 37 million tons of building debris if 100 trucks were used a day. 70 thousand buildings were destroyed, 290 thousand were damaged including schools, hospitals, churches, mosques and historical places. Rm188 billion in repair costs are required (7 Ocktober 2023 – 3 May 2024)
The place where all the prisoner are innocent, it is zoo
The largest population in the world is (1) China 1.41 billion, (2) India 1.39 billion, (3) US 336 million, (4) Indonesia 279 million. The small population is Vatican City with 764 people in an area of 0.405 km2 (100 Acres)
In a day, 24 million peoples board 12,817 trains in India, this number is equivalent to 4 times the number of Singaporeans
26 lanes of the widest expressway is the Katy Freeway in Houston, Texas in the US but in China, Expressway G4 Beijing – Hong Kong – Macao, vehicles lined up to pay tolls resulting in 50 lanes
Novel ‘Island of the Blue Dolphins’ diterbitkan oleh Scott O’Dell. Dia dikata tertinggal kapal kerana pergi mencari anaknya untuk dibawa bersama ketika dalam proses pemindahan penduduk pulau tersebut
Juana Maria, left behind during an evacuation, lived alone in San Nicholas Island for 18 years. A novel titled ‘Island of the Blue Dolphin’s (1960) by Scott O’Dell is based on this story.
Sebenarnya ia tidak diikhtiraf sebagai sebuah negara pun.
Sealand, is a smallest ‘country’ in the world, size half of the football pitch. It has its own government, currency, passport & even a soccer team with population 27 people. Actually is unrecognised as a country
https://sealandgov.org/en-as/pages/the-story
In Egyption Desert in Wadi Al-Hitan, Whale fossil found estimated aged about 43 million years old
Roads in Sweden have a lane, electrified road to charge electric vehicles passing through will be charged while being driven
Mehran Karimi Nasseri living in Charles de Gaulle airport, France for 18 years since 1988 to 2006. A film titled The Terminal produced by Steven Spielberg bases of this true story and received $250,000 as inspiration for Dreamworks’ new film The Terminal but still sleeps on the plastic bench
Steven Spielberg menghasilkan filem ‘The Terminal’ dibintangi Tom Hanks berdasarkan kisah benar ini. Dia menerima 250,000 dolar dari Steven Spielberg sebagai ganjaran jalan cerita.
Soirce : Majalah Mastika
Since Walt Disney World Resort opended in 1971, they’ve taken in over 1.65 million pairs of missing sunglasses. More than 6,000 cell phone, 3,500 digital cameras, 18,000 hats and 7,500 autograph books collected by Lost and Found Department. 210 pairs of sunglasses found every day
There are no mosquitoes in Antarctica and Iceland because of the extreme cold, they cannot regulate their body temperature internally
Snowfall recorded in the Sahara Desert
1979, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2021 & Jan 2022. In 2018 up to 30cm in higher elevation areas. Sahara receiving 100mm of rainfall per year.
Reference : Jasper Knight, Professor of Physical Geography, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
Under construction, the world’s largest hotel in the world, Abraj Kudai in Saudi Arabia with 10,000 rooms, 70 restaurants dan 5 rooftop helipad
Von Braun Station, will be turned into a space hotel in the future
No snake at all in Antarctica, Ireland, Greenland, Iceland. In New Zealand, not only snakes but nor crocodile be found.
In Churchill, Canada, it is common for owners to leave their cars unlocked, to allow anyone attacked by a polar bear to get into the car to escape.
The only countries in the world, completely free from snake and crocodiles / alligator are New Zealand. Snake are completely missing from New Zealand’s zoos, because imbalance in the snake free ecosystem and it is illegal to bring snakes into New Zealand, a snake-free country.
The longest straight road in the world is situated in Saudi Arabia, 1,116 km
Largest hotel in the world with 7,351 rooms, is First World Hotel is located in Genting Highlands Malaysia
The longest tunnel in the world is 57km, it took 17 years to build in Switzerland, second Japan 53.85 and France/UK 50.43km
The Istana Nurul Iman is the official residence of the Sultan of Brunei, with 1,788 rooms ¹ , 257 bathroom. Hofburg Palace in Austria with 2,600 rooms
Sources : ¹Majalah Mastika
The longest road without an exit and entrance is 200km in the desert/desert in Death Valley National Park, California
Blue lights installed at the train platform in Japan, believed to reduce the rate of suicides
In China, if you are stuck in a traffic jam, for a fee of $60, 2 people will come to your vehicle, one will take your car to the destination, the other will send you by motorcycle
Qatar uses blue roads to reduce heat radiating from the asphalt