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 Posted: 17-Mar-2005 01:17 Post subject: Strange Facts |
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Strange but true facts about the Earth:
In 1783 an Icelandic eruption threw up enough dust to temporarily block out the sun over Europe.
About 20 to 30 volcanoes erupt each year, mostly under the sea.
A huge underground river runs underneath the Nile, with six times more water than the river above.
Lake Bosumtwi in Ghana formed in a hollow made by a meteorite.
Beaver Lake, in Yellowstone Park, USA, was artificially created by beaver damming.
Off the coast of Florida there is an underwater hotel. Guests have to dive to the entrance.
Venice in Italy is built on 118 sea islets joined by 400 bridges. It is gradually sinking into the water.
The Ancient Egyptians worshipped a sky goddess called Nut.
The world's windiest place is Commonwealth Bay, Antartica.
In 1934, a gust of wind reached 371 km/h on Mount Washington in New Hampshire, USA.
American Roy Sullivan has been struck by lighting a record seven times.
The desert baobab tree can store up to 1000 liters of water in its trunk.
The oldest living tree is a California bristlecone pine name 'Methuselah'. It is about 4600 years old. The largest tree in the world is a giant sequoia growing in California. It is 84 meters tall and measures 29 meters round the trunk. The fastest growing tree is the eucalyptus. It can grow 10 meters a year.
The Antarctic notothenia fish has a protein in its blood that acts like antifreeze and stops the fish freezing in icy sea.
The USA uses 29% of the world's petrol and 33% of the world's electricity.
The industrial complex of Cubatao in Brazil is known as the Valley of Death because its pollution has destroyed the trees and rivers nearby.
Tibet is the highest country in the world. Its average height above sea level is 4500 meters.
Some of the oldest mountains in the world are the Highlands in Scotland. They are estimated to be about 400 million years old.
Fresh water from the River Amazon can be found up to 180 km out to sea.
The White Sea, in Russia, has the lowest temperature, only -2 degrees centigrade. The Persian Gulf is the warmest sea. In the summer its temperature reaches 35.6 degrees centigrade.
There is no land at all at the North Pole, only ice on top of sea. The Arctic Ocean has about 12 million sq km of floating ice and has the coldest winter temperature of -34 degrees centigrade.
The Antarctic ice sheet is 3-4 km thick, covers 13 million sq km and has temperatures as low as -70 degrees centigrade.
Over 4 million cars in Brazil are now running on gasohol instead of petrol. Gasohol is a fuel made from sugar cane.
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| Posted: 17-Mar-2005 10:55 Post subject: RE: Strange Facts |
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Other interesting facts:
Tablecloths were originally meant to be served as towels with which dinner guests could wipe their hands and faces after eating.
Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult.
Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.
The Nobel Peace Prize medal depicts three naked men with their hands on each other's shoulders.
When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second.
A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface.
It takes glass one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite amount of times.
It's illegal to drink beer out of a bucket while you're sitting on a curb in St. Louis.
No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half.
A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
The average life span of a major league baseball is 5-7 pitches.
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable".
A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat, so you can eat your plate.
More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money printed throughout the world.
Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States.
America once issued a 5-cent bill.
There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange, purple, and month.
Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung.
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