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

near jackson?

On Apr 26, 2:10 pm, Bruce Majors <majors.br...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Funny that is 2 and a half hours more or less east of wherei grew up and I
> never knew there were waterfalls there
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> On Thursday, April 26, 2012, Keith In Tampa wrote:
> > Hey PlainOl'!
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> > 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>!
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> > On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 11:47 AM, plainolamerican <
> > plainolameri...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > in my backyard
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> > 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.)
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> >http://tn.gov/environment/parks/FallCreekFalls/gallery/nature/index.s...
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> > 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**.   *
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> > > *
> > > **More than half of the coastline of the entire United States is in
> > Alaska .
> > > *
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> > >  ------------------------------
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> > > *
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> > > **
> > > **Amazon*
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> > > *
> > > **The Amazon rainforest produces more than 20%
> > > of the world's oxygen supply.*
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> > > *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 . *
> > >  ------------------------------
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> > > *
> > > **
> > > **Antarctica*
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> > > *
> > > **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.*
> > > ------------------------------
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> > > *
> > > **
> > > **Brazil*
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> > > *
> > > **Brazil got its name from the nut, not the other way around.*
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> > >  ------------------------------
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> > > *
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> > > **
> > > **Canada*
>
> > > *
> > > **Canada has more lakes than the rest of the world combined. Canada is an
> > > Indian word meaning ' Big Village '.*
> > > ------------------------------
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> > > *
> > > **
> > > **Chicago*
>
> > > *
> > > **Next to Warsaw , Chicago has the largest Polish population
> > > in the world.*
> > >  ------------------------------
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> > > *
> > > **Detroit*
>
> > > *
> > > **Woodward Avenue in Detroit, Michigan, carries the designation M-1,
> > > so named because it was the first paved road anywhere.*
> > >  ------------------------------
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> > > *
> > > **
> > > **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.*
>
> > >  ------------------------------
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> > > *
> > > **
> > > **Istanbul , Turkey*
>
> > > *
> > > **Istanbul, Turkey, is the only city in the world
> > > located on two continents.*
> > > ------------------------------
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> > > *
> > > **
> > > **Los Angeles*
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> > > *
> > > **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.*
> > > ------------------------------
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> > > *
> > > **
> > > **New York City*
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> > > *
> > > **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

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