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An almost-invisible square metre sheet of graphene could be made into a hammock to hold the weight of a 4kg cat, despite weighing less than one of the cat's whiskers

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A giant blue cock was erected in London's Trafalgar Square in 25 July 2013. Standing at 4.72 metres (15.5 ft), it stood for 2 years and was nicknamed "The Big Blue Cock of London".

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1. The shortest Tube journey is 260 metres, between Leicester Square and Covent Garden on the Piccadilly Line. It takes 30 seconds, but costs £4.90 (6USD) as a single cash ticket.

2. Mill Ends Park, a planter of flowers in a median strip in Portland, Oregon. While only 452 square inches (0.292 metres square), it has been recognised as the 'Smallest Park in the World' by Guinness, and the original caretaker described it as "the only leprechaun colony west of Ireland".

3. The Nazis were building an 'underground city'; a complex of tunnels and chambers covering two hundred thousand square metres, and a dedicated group of treasure hunters still searches the area looking for hidden gold

4. The Palatul Parlamentului (Palace of the Parliament) in Bucharest, Romania is the heaviest building in the world and made from: 700,000 tonnes of steel and bronze, a million square feet of marble, 3500 tonnes of crystal and 900,000 square metres of wood

5. There is a tree in India that takes up an area of about 18,918 square metres (about 1.5 hectares or 4 acres) and is only 250(ish) years old.

6. Daniel Lamb who at the time of his death in 1809 weighed 739 lb/335 kg and his coffin required 112 square feet (10.4 square metres) of wood

7. Kenya's tallest building features a unique prismic shape, that starts as an equal four sided square footprint and ends with a two sided roof with a 60 metres (197 ft) mast, containing three helical wind turbines

8. During World War I an estimated one tonne of explosives was fired for every square metre of territory on the Western front. As many as one in every three shells fired did not detonate.

9. The Leonardo in Johannesburg officially became the tallest building in Africa in 2019. Its 2100 square metre, 3 floor penthouse apartment for R180 million make this the most expensive sectional title property ever sold in South Africa

10. Migingo Island, a tiny 2,000-square-metre island in Lake Victoria that has a population density of 65,500 pp/km2 (169,600 pp/sq mi)

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Trains in Mumbai undergo a "super dense crush load" when there are 14-16 people per square metre in each carriage

The largest pitch in the English Premier league, Huddersfield 7,245m², is over 800 square metres bigger than the smallest, Stoke's Bet365 6,400m² - source

There's a house in Toronto that is only 29 square metres (312 square feet) - source

Toronto holds the Guinness World Record for the largest underground shopping complex with 30 km (19 miles) of shopping arcades. At 371,600 square metres (4 million square feet) of retail space, PATH rivals the West Edmonton Mall in size.

There is a geocoding system call "What three words" which has divided the entire surface of the earth into 57 trillion 3x3 metre squares, and has assigned each of these squares a unique three-word label. The idea is to give every person on earth an address. They have a phone app.

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There are 187,888 lakes in Finland larger than 500 km2 (5,400 sq ft). About 57,000 of them are larger than 10,000 square metres (110,000 sq ft).