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A Serbian flight attendant once fell 10,160 meters (33,330 ft) without a parachute and survived.

The Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang, North Korea is 330 metres (1,080 ft) tall and was intended to be world's tallest hotel but these days it is the tallest unoccupied building in the world

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1. The asteroid impact responsible for the extinction of the dinosaurs created a megatsunami estimated to have been more than 100 m (330 ft) tall. Had the asteroid struck the deep sea (instead of a relatively shallow sea) the wave would have been 4.6 kilometres (2.9 mi) tall.

2. Vesna Vulović holds the Guinness world record for surviving the highest fall without a parachute: 10,160 metres (33,330 ft). Her fall took place after an explosion tore through the baggage compartment of JAT Flight 367 on 26 January 1972 causing it to crash near Srbská Kamenice, Czechoslova

3. Vesna Vulović was a flight attendant on the Serbian flight JAT Flight 367 when the aircraft was struck by a missile and she fell approximately 10,160 meters (33,330 ft). The Guinness Book of World Records considers this a world record for surviving the highest fall without a parachute.

4. Had the Chicxulub crater impact caused a 330 ft tall megatsunami. Had it occurred in deep sea the megatsunami would have been 2.9 miles tall.

5. Vesna Vulović holds the Guinness world record for surviving the highest fall without a parachute: 10,160 metres (33,330 ft). She lived for another 44 years after the incident, managing to make an almost complete recovery.

6. There's a hydroelectric plant in Yukon that is located over 100 m (330 ft) below ground

7. Because it rests on a fault line, Lake Tahoe is at risk for an earthquake-triggered tsunami predicted to be between 10-30 ft high. In fact, a landslide ~50,000 years ago is thought to have generated a tsunami with a height approaching 330 ft (100 m).

8. Caminito del Rey", dubbed the world's most dangerous pathway, is 3 km long, 1 metre (3.3 ft) in width, and rises over 100 metres (330 ft) above the gorge below, and was closed 14 years ago after five tourists fell to their deaths

9. The sandbox tree's fruiting bodies are large capsules which can explode when ripe, splitting into segments and launching seeds at 70 metres per second (160 mph). One source states that ripe capsules catapult their seeds as far as 100 metres (330 ft). The sap is poisonous and can blind humans.