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King Fahd's Fountain is the tallest of its kind

The Jeddah jet lifts seawater roughly 312 metres into the air The fountain on the Red Sea coast of Saudi Arabia was completed in 1985 and throws water to roughly 312 metres, higher than any other fountain. It draws seawater, pumps it at high pressure and lights the plume at night with hundreds of projectors. The height is achieved because the nozzle is set well above sea level on a purpose built structure. It sits in Mondo's records & extremes collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: The Jeddah jet lifts seawater roughly 312 metres into the air. The figure is taken from Britannica, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a records & extremes fact?: Yes. It sits on the Records & Extremes shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.