WORLD'S MOST EXPENSIVE WHISKEY - $460,000!!

The most expensive whisky sold at auction is $460,000 (£291,125), for a bottle of 64-year-old Macallan in Lalique, sold at Sotheby’s in New York, New York, USA, on 15 November 2010.

This sale represented the collaboration between The Macallan® and Lalique, with 100 percent of the proceeds benefiting charity: water, an organization that provides access to clean, safe drinking water for people in developing nations.

WORLD'S MOST EXPENSIVE BURGER!

The most expensive hamburger is Le Burger Extravagant which sells for $295.00 (£186.52) at Serendipity 3 in New York, New York, USA, as of 22 May 2012.

The hamburger is made from white truffle butter-infused Japanese Wagyu beef and topped with James Montgomery cheddar cheese, black truffles and a fried quail egg. It is served on a gold-dusted campagna roll spread with white truffle butter. The roll is topped with a blini, creme fraiche and caviar.

MOST EXPENSIVE COCKTAIL!

The most expensive cocktail was sold for £8,583 ($12,970) and was made by Joel Heffernan (Australia), at Club 23, Melbourne, Australia, on 7 February 2013.

The cocktail made by Joel Heffernan, called 'the Winston', contained 60ml of Croizet's 1858 'Cuvee Leonie' cognac. This cognac is also the Guinness World Records title holder of the most expensive cognac sold at auction.

WORLD'S MOST EXPENSIVE CAT!!

A Californian Spangled Cat was bought for $24,000 (£15,925) in January 1987 and was the display cat from the Neiman Marcus Christmas Book of 1986.

MOST EXPENSIVE BOARD GAME OF MONOPOLY

An exclusive $2 million (£1.4 million) Monopoly set was created by the jeweller Sidney Mobell, San Francisco, USA in 1988. The board is made from 23 carat gold, rubies and sapphires top the chimneys of the solid gold houses and hotels and the dice have 42 full cut diamonds for spots.

WORLD'S LARGEST SPIDER

The world's largest known spider is a male goliath bird-eating spider (Theraphosa blondi) collected by members of the Pablo San Martin Expedition at Rio Cavro, Venezuela in April 1965. It had a record leg-span of 28 cm (11 in) - sufficient to cover a dinner plate. This species is found in the coastal rainforests of Surinam, Guyana and French Guiana, but isolated specimens have also been reported from Venezuela and Brazil. 

A two year old spider of the same species, bred by Robert Bustard and reared by Brian Burnett of Alyth, Perthshire also had a leg span of 28 cm (11 in) and weighed 170 g (6 oz) in February 1998.

Body length: 280 mm, Weight: 50 g, lifespan: 10 years, discovered: 1804.

WORLD'S TALLEST MAN

The tallest man living is Sultan Kösen (Turkey, b.10 December 1982) who measured 251 cm (8 ft 3 in) in Ankara, Turkey, on 08 February 2011.The part-tme farmer was the first man over 8 ft (2.43 m) to be measured by Guinness World Record in over 20 years.Indeed, GWR only knows of 10 confirmed or reliable cases in history of humans reaching 8 ft or more.Sultan also holds the records for widest hand span and largest feet on a living person.Speaking at the time of his entry into the Guinness World Records family he said: 'I never imagined I would be in the book, I dreamed about it, but it was still a huge surprise'.Sultan is one of five siblings, with three brothers and one sister,. The rest of his family, including his mum and dad, are all 'normal' sized.Because of his extreme height he was never able to finish school but works occasionally as a farmer to support his family.He describes one of the advantages of being tall as being able to help out his mum out with jobs such as changing a broken light bulb and hanging curtains.Disadvantages to his height he lists include not being able to find clothes or shoes that fit or finding it extremely hard to fit into a regular size car.Like every young man in their twenties, Sultan enjoys listening to music, playing computer games and watching movies.