Re: 23 facts you probably did not know...

Hey PlainOl'!

 

Are you in Tennessee?  I guess I knew that,  but had somehow misplaced that information.  I guess you can't be all that bad, just confused from time to time and on occasion!  <Grin>!

 

 

On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 11:47 AM, plainolamerican <plainolamerican@gmail.com> wrote:

in my backyard

At 256 feet, Fall Creek Falls is said to feature the highest vertical
drop of any waterfall east of the Mississippi. (The highest vertical
drop in the west is Yosemite Creek Waterfall in California at 2,425
feet; Niagara Falls in New York state has vertical drop of but 180
feet.)

http://tn.gov/environment/parks/FallCreekFalls/gallery/nature/index.shtml

On Apr 26, 10:39 am, Travis <baconl...@gmail.com> wrote:
>                              *You're** **gonna say "I didn't know that!" at
> least 5 times.**  **Really neat stuff here**.   *
>
> *
> **More than half of the coastline of the entire United States is in Alaska .
> *
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> *
>
> **
> **Amazon*
>
> *
> **The Amazon rainforest produces more than 20%
> of the world's oxygen supply.*
>
> *The Amazon River pushes so much water into the Atlantic Ocean that, more

> than one hundred miles at sea off the mouth of the river, one can dip fresh
> water out of the ocean.  The volume of water in the Amazon river is greater
> than the next eight largest rivers in the world combined and three times

> the flow of all rivers in the United States . *
>  ------------------------------
>
> *
> **
> **Antarctica*
>
> *
> **Antarctica is the only land on our planet that is not owned by any

> country..
> Ninety percent of the world's ice covers Antarctica .
> This ice also represents seventy percent of all the fresh water in the
> world.
> As strange as it sounds, however, Antarctica is essentially a desert;
> the average yearly total precipitation is about two inches.
> Although covered with ice (all but 0.4% of it, ice.),
> Antarctica is the driest place on the planet,

> with an absolute humidity lower than the Gobi desert.*
> ------------------------------
>
> *
> **
> **Brazil*
>
> *
> **Brazil got its name from the nut, not the other way around.*
>
>  ------------------------------
>
> *
>
> **
> **Canada*
>
> *
> **Canada has more lakes than the rest of the world combined. Canada is an
> Indian word meaning ' Big Village '.*
> ------------------------------
>
> *
> **
> **Chicago*
>
> *
> **Next to Warsaw , Chicago has the largest Polish population
> in the world.*
>  ------------------------------
>
> *
> **Detroit*
>
> *
> **Woodward Avenue in Detroit, Michigan, carries the designation M-1,
> so named because it was the first paved road anywhere.*
>  ------------------------------
>
> *
> **
> **Damascus , Syria*
>
> *
> **Damascus, Syria, was flourishing a couple of thousand years

> before Rome was founded in 753 BC,

> making it the oldest continuously inhabited city in existence.*
>
>  ------------------------------
>
> *
> **
> **Istanbul , Turkey*
>
> *
> **Istanbul, Turkey, is the only city in the world
> located on two continents.*
> ------------------------------
>
> *
> **
> **Los Angeles*
>
> *
> **Los Angeles ' full name is:

> El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncula

> -- and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size: L.A.*
> ------------------------------
>
> *
> **
> **New York City*
>
> *
> **The term 'The Big Apple' was coined

> by touring jazz musicians of the 1930s
> who used the slang expression 'apple' for any town or city.
> Therefore, to play New York City
> is to play the big time - The Big Apple.
>
> There are more Irish in New York City
> than in Dublin , Ireland ;
> more Italians in New York City
> than in Rome , Italy ;
> and more Jews in New York City

> than in Tel Aviv , Israel .*
>
>  ------------------------------
>
> *
>
> **
> **Ohio*
>
> *
> **There are no natural lakes in the state of Ohio , every one is manmade.*
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>
> *
> **
> **Pitcairn Island*
>
> *
> **The smallest island with country status is Pitcairn
> in Polynesia , at just 1.75 sq. miles/4,53 sq. km.*
> ------------------------------
>
> *
> **Rome*
>
> *
> **The first city to reach a population of 1 million people

> was Rome , Italy in 133 B.C.

> There is a city called Rome on every continent.*
> ------------------------------
>
> *
> **Siberia*
>
> *
> **Siberia contains more than 25% of the world's forests.*
> ------------------------------
>
> *
> **
> **S.M.O.M.*
>
> *
> **The actual smallest sovereign entity in the world

> is the Sovereign Military Order of Malta (S.M.O.M).
> It is located in the city of Rome , Italy ,
> has an area of two tennis courts
> and, as of 2001, has a population of 80
> -- 20 less people than the Vatican ..
> It is a sovereign entity under international law,

> just as the Vatican is.*
>
>  ------------------------------
>
> *
>
> **
> **Sahara Desert*
>
> *
> **In the Sahara Desert , there is a town named Tidikelt , Algeria ,

> which did not receive a drop of rain for ten years.
> Technically though, the driest place on Earth
> is in the valleys of the Antarctic near Ross Island .

> There has been no rainfall there for two million years.*
> ------------------------------
>
> *
> **Spain*
>
> *
> **Spain literally means 'the land of rabbits'.*
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>
> *
> **
> **St. Paul , Minnesota*
>
> *
> **St. Paul , Minnesota , was originally called Pig's Eye

> after a man named Pierre 'Pig's Eye' Parrant

> who set up the first business there.*
> ------------------------------
>
> *
> **
> **Roads*
>
> *
> **Chances that a road is unpaved:

> in the U.S.A.. = 1%;

> in Canada = ...75%*
> ------------------------------
>
> *
> **
> **Russia*
>
> *
> **The deepest hole ever drilled by man is the

> Kola Superdeep Borehole, in Russia .
> It reached a depth of 12,261 meters
> (about 40,226 feet or 7.62 miles).
> It was drilled for scientific research
> and gave up some unexpected discoveries,
> one of which was a huge deposit of hydrogen
> - so massive that the mud coming from the hole

> was boiling with it.*
> ------------------------------
>
> *
> **
> **United States*
>
> *
> **The Eisenhower interstate system requires

> that one mile in every five must be straight.
> These straight sections are usable as airstrips

> in times of war or other emergencies.*
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>
> *
> **
> **Waterfalls*
>
> *
> **The water of Angel Falls (the world's highest) in Venezuela

> drops 3,212 feet (979 meters).

> They are 15 times higher than Niagara Falls .*
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