Facts on facts about Singapore: Series : 3

• The Guinness book record for the longest human domino chain was set in Singapore on 30th September 2000. Formed by 9,234 students, it measured 4.2km.
  
• The world domino topple record (303,621 men) was set in Singapore on 18th August 2003 by a 24-year-old woman from China.
  
• The record for the biggest ever game of pass-the-parcel was set in Singapore on 28 February 1998. It involved 3,918 students removing 2,200 wrappers from a 1.5 x 1.5 x 0.5 m parcel.
  
• The record for the most number of people participating in line dancing was set in Singapore in May 2002 with 11,967 dancers.
  
• The Great Singapore Duck Race, an annual event that raises funds for charity, set a new world record in 2002 when more than 123,000 toy ducks took to the Singapore River.
  
• Russell Lee, a pseudonym for a team of ghost-writers, is the hottest-selling local author in Singapore. His 11 volumes of True Singapore Ghost Stories have sold more than 600,000 copies to date.
  
• The fastest selling book of all time in Singapore is Hello Chok Tong, Goodbye Kuan Yew: The Untold Story. Written and drawn by political cartoonist George Nonis, it sold 40,000 copies in two months.
  
• The highest grossing movie of all time in Singapore is Titanic, raking in S$6.65 million in 1997.
  
• The highest grossing locally made movie of all time is Money No Enough, raking in S$6.02 million in 1998.
  
• The first Singaporean film to be shown at the Cannes Film Festival was director Eric Khoo's 12 Storeys in 1997