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The 1993 Guinness Book of World Records reported that the longest line of coins ever created was 34.57 miles long. It had 2,367,234 coins and was in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

The 1993 World Record for the most valuable line of coins was 1,724,000 quarters. The line was 25.9 miles long in Atlanta, GA.

Queuing theory deals with wait times in lines.

The largest paying audience was on April 21, 1990 when an estimated 180,000 people in Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, paid to hear Paul McCartney.

At the London opening of The Phantom Menace, 11,500 tickets were sold in just 30 minutes on June 12, 1999.
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