Alaska
More
than half of the coastline of the entire
United States is in
Alaska
.
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.
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'.
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.
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 .
I have always said, you should learn
something new every day. Unfortunately, many
of us are at that age where what we learn today, we
forget tomorrow.
But, give it a shot
anyway.
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