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The fastest-selling book of all time in Singapore is "Hello Chok Tong, Goodbye Kuan Yew".
Suntec City's "Fountain of Wealth" is the largest fountain in the world.
Singapore’s highest grossing locally-made movie is "Money No Enough", which raked in S$6.02 million in 1998.
Singapore is the 2nd most competitive economy in the world, after Switzerland, according to the World Economic Forum.
Singapore is ranked 2nd in the world and 1st in Asia for having the best protection of intellectual property by World Economic Forum in 2012.
In 2011, Singapore was ranked first in the world as the city with the best investment potential by BERI.
More than 80% of Singaporeans live in public housing flats.
Every day, over 8.9 million trips are made on Singapore's public transport.
Singapore has 3 regional libraries and 21 community libraries scattered island-wide.
The Singapore Art Museum houses the largest collection of 20th-century Southeast Asian art in the region.
One of Singapore’s newest malls, ION Orchard, has over 300 shops on eight floors.
Singapore hosted the world's first Youth Olympic Games in 2010.
A Goods and Services Tax of 7% is applicable for all items imported into Singapore.
There are 192,300 overseas Singaporeans as of June 2011.
All dogs imported into Singapore must be implanted with a microchip which matches their veterinary papers.
The world’s biggest passenger aircraft - the superjumbo Airbus A380 - was first operated by Singapore Airlines.
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