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Marina Bay Sands SkyPark has the longest cantilever

Its rooftop platform juts 67 metres beyond the tower that supports it The SkyPark atop Singapore's Marina Bay Sands is a 340 metre platform linking three hotel towers, and at its northern end it overhangs empty space by about 67 metres. Engineers balanced the overhang with a steel truss and by tying the platform back to the towers. The deck holds an infinity pool, gardens and restaurants about 200 metres above the bay. 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?: Its rooftop platform juts 67 metres beyond the tower that supports it. The figure is taken from Marina Bay Sands, 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.