Facts and Truths


  • POLITICAL FACTS
  • Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846. John F. Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946.
  • Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860. John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960.
  • Both were shot in the back of the head in the presence of their wives.
  • Both wives lost their children while living in the White House.
  • Both Presidents were shot on a Friday.
  • Lincoln's secretary was named Kennedy.
  • Both were succeeded by Southerners named Johnson.
  • Andrew Johnson, who succeeded Lincoln, was born in 1808. Lyndon Johnson, who succeeded Kennedy, was born in 1908.
  • Lincoln was shot in the Ford Theatre. Kennedy was shot in a Lincoln, made by Ford.
  • Lincoln was shot in a theater and his assassin ran and hid in a warehouse. Kennedy was shot from a warehouse and his assassin ran And hid in a theater.
  • Booth and Oswald were assassinated before their trial

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    If you eat a polar bear liver, you will die. Humans can’t handle that much vitamin A.
    The critically endangered Kakapo bird has a strong, pleasant, musty odour which allows predators to easily locate it. Hence, it is critically endangered.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakapo
    One I learned on here. The male giraffe will continuously headbutt the female in the bladder until she urinates. The male then tastes the pee and that helps it determine whether the female is ovulating. If she is, it’s business time.
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    Abalones (a snail) have 5 assholes.
    Banana Slug penises. First off, a banana slug can be 6-8 inches. The slug’s erect penis be just as long. Also, their penises emerge from their heads. After sex, banana slugs eat each other’s penises. They’re also the mascot of UC Santa Cruz.
    Dead people can get goosebumps.
    A full head of human hair is strong enough to support 12 tons.
    The blood from a human erection has enough blood to keep 3 gerbals alive.
    The word “facetiously” contains all 5 vowels and “y” in alphabetical order.
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    The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses…
    Dragonflies have shovel shaped penises so they can scoop out their rival’s sperm.
    Honey does not spoil. You could feasibly eat 3000 year old honey.
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    There was a ten foot tall ape called Gigantopithecus that is now thought to be extinct. The fossil record also indicates that they most likely buried their dead, which indicates a cognitive level that only one other ape possesses.
    There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than there are atoms in the known universe. It’s called The Shannon Number, here’s a wikipedia article about it
    If you were to remove all of the empty space from the atoms that make up every human on earth, the entire world population could fit into an apple
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    Duck vaginas have developed “dead ends” over time to protect them from being raped by other ducks.
    The song Coconut (“She put the lime in the coconut, she drank ‘em both up…”) has only one chord in the entire song. It is the only song without any chord changes to reach the Billboard Hot 100 chart. It reached #8 in 1972.
    The average blue whale produces over 400 gallons of sperm when it ejaculates, but only 10% of that actually makes it into his mate. Happy Swimming!!! :-)
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    A mantis shrimp can swing its claw so fast it boils the water around it and creates a flash of light.
    That completely blind people don’t see blackness, they see nothing.
    Llamas are born with an extra pair of fighting teeth that they use to bite off other llamas’ testicles making them the only fertile male in the group.
    Only Asian people have black hair. Every other supposedly ‘black’ hair colour is actually really dark brown.
    The Indonesian Mimic Octopus can not only change colours, but will mimic the shapes of other animals, like the flounder, poisonous lion fish, and sea snakes.
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    One species of jellyfish, Turritopsis nutricula, are immortal.
    A blue whale’s penis is 11 feet long.
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    Cats sleep for 70% of their lives.
    A pig’s orgasm lasts 30 minutes and a male lion mates up to 50 times a day.
    male elephants sometimes use their penis as a 5th limb.
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    The brain named itself.
    Mozart wrote a canon entitled “Leck mich im Arsch,” which translates as “Lick me in the arse.” TC mark
    Facts and truths.
    1.   The average distance between the stars in the sky is 20 million miles.
    2.   Your body sheds 10 billion flakes of skin a day.
    3.   The earth weighs 6,500 million million million tons.
    4.   Honey is the only food that does not expire.
    5.   Every time you sneeze your heart stops for a second.
    6.   The word “set” has the most definitions in English language.
    7.   The only fifteen letter word that can be spelt without repeating any of its letters is uncopywrightable.
    8.   The longest word in English without a vowel is twyndyllyngs meaning twins.
    9.   Albert Einstein never wore any socks.
    10.                   In space astronauts cannot cry because there is no gravity.
    11.                   Hummingbirds are the only creatures that can fly backwards.
    12.                   It is physically impossible for pigs to look up in the sky.
    13.                   All babies are colour blind when they are born.
    14.                   The coconut is the largest seed in the world.
    15.                   The symbols + and – came into general use in 1489.
    16.                   All elephants walk on tiptoe because the back portion of their feet is made up of fat and no bones.
    17.                   The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
    18.                   The strongest bone in the body is the thigh (femur) bone.
    19.                   A chameleon can move its eyes in two different directions at the same time.
    20.                   Typewriter is the only word that can be made by using only one row of the keyboard.
    21.                   The name of all continents end with the same letter they start with.
    22.                   Butterflies taste with their feet.
    23.                   A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
    24.                   A shrimp’s heart is in its head.
    25.                   20% of oxygen is used in the brain.
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    1. Coca-cola was originally green.
    2. Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than for the US Treasury.
    3. Smartest dogs: 1) border collie; 2)poodle; 3)golden retriever.
    4. Dumbest dog: Afghan
    5. Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters.
    6. Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.
    7. Chances that an American lives within 50 miles of where they grew up: 1 in 2
    8. Amount American Airlines saved in '87 by taking out 1 olive from each salad served in first class: $40,000
    9. City with the most Rolls Royce's per capita: Hong Kong
    10. State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska
    11. Chances of a white Christmas in New York: 1 in 4
    12. Portion of US annual rainfall that falls in April: 1/12
    13. Percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28%
    14. Percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%
    15. Estimated % of American adults who go on diet each year: 44%
    16. Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33
    17. Average number of days a West German goes without washing his underwear: 7
    18. Percentage of Americans who say that God has spoken to them: 36%
    19. Percentage of Americans who regularly attend religious services: 43%
    20. City with highest per capita viewership of TV evangelists: Washington DC
    21. Percentage of American men who say they would marry the same woman if they had it to do all over again: 80%
    22. % of American women who say they would marry the same man: 50%
    23. % of men who say they are happier after their divorce or separation: 58%
    24. % of women who say they are happier after their divorce or separation: 85%
    25. Number of different family relationships for which Hallmark makes cards: 105
    26. Cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $6,400
    27. Average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000.
    28. Percentage of Americans who have visited Disneyland or Disney World: 70%
    29. Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
    30. Portion of ice cream sold that is vanilla: 1/3
    31. Portion of potatoes sold that are French fried: 1/3
    32. Percentage of Americans that eat at McDonald's each day: 7
    33. Percentage of bird species that are monogamous: 90%
    34. Percentage of mammal species that are: 3%
    35. Number of US states that claim test scores in their elementary schools are above national average: 50%
    36. Portion of Harvard students who graduate with honors: 4/5
    37. Chances that a burglary in the US will be solved: 1 in 7.
    38. Portion of land in the US owned by the government: 1/3
    39. Only President to remain a bachelor: James Buchanon
    40. Only first lady to carry a loaded revolver: Eleanor Roosevelt
    41. Only President to win a Pulitzer: John F. Kennedy for "Profiles in Courage"
    42. Only President awarded a patent: Abe Lincoln, for a system of buoying vessels over shoals
    43. Only food that does not spoil: honey
    44. Only person to win $64,000 Challenge and $64,000 Question: Dr. Joyce Brothers (subject is boxing)
    45. Only bird that can fly backwards: Hummingbird
    46. Only continent without reptiles or snakes: Antarctica
    47. Only animal besides human that can get sunburn: pig
    48. Ostriches stick their heads in the sand to look for water.
    49. An eagle can kill a young deer and fly away with it.
    50. In the Caribbean there are oysters that can climb trees.
    51. Polar bears are left-handed.
    52. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
    53. Eskimos never gamble.
    54. The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
    55. The youngest pope was 11 years old.
    56. Mark Twain didn't graduate from elementary school.
    57. Proportional to their weight, men are stronger than horses.
    58. Pilgrims ate popcorn at the first Thanksgiving dinner.
    59. Your nose and ears never stop growing.
    60. Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets in our solar system combined.
    61. Hot water is heavier than cold.    62. The parachute was invented by da Vinci in 1515.
    63. They have square watermelons in Japan. They stack better.
    64. Cream does not weigh as much as milk.
    65. Starfish have eight eyes-one at the end of each leg.
    66. Iceland consumes more Coca-cola per capita than any other nation.
    67. First novel ever written on a typewriter was "Tom Sawyer."
    68. There are more collect calls on Father's Day than any other day of the year.
    69. Heinz Catsup leaving the bottle travels at 25 miles per year.
    70. It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.
    71. Men get hiccups more often than women.
    72. Armadillos can be housebroken.
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    The word "queue" is the only word in the English language that is still pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed.
    Beetles taste like apples, wasps like pine nuts, and worms  like fried bacon.
    Of all the words in the English language, the word 'set' has the most definitions!
    What is called a "French kiss" in the English speaking world is known as an "English kiss" in France.
    "Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
    "Rhythm" is the longest English word without a vowel.

    In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child

    A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off!

    Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.

    You can't kill yourself by holding your breath

    There is a city called Rome on every continent.

    It's against the law to have a pet dog in Iceland!

    Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day!
    Horatio Nelson, one of England's most illustrious admirals was throughout his life, never able to find a cure for his sea-sickness.
    The skeleton of Jeremy Bentham is present at all important meetings of the University of London
    Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people

    Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, everytime you breathe!

    The elephant is the only mammal  that can't jump!

    One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet!

    Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different!

    The first known transfusion of blood was performed as early as 1667, when Jean-Baptiste, transfused two pints of blood from a sheep to a young man

    Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!

    Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!

    The present population of 5 billion plus people of the world is predicted to become 15 billion by 2080.
    Women blink nearly twice as much as men. Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian, and had only ONE testicle
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    Interesting Facts about Earth / World


    About 400 billion gallons water is used worldwide each day.
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    The moon is one million times drier than the Gobi Desert.
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    Earth travels through space at 66,700 miles per hour.
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    From a distance, Earth would be the brightest of the 9 planets. This is because sunlight is reflected by the planet's water.
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    Asia Continent is covered 30% of the total earth land area, but represent 60% of the world's population.
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    The Persian Gulf is the warmest sea. In the summer its temperature reaches 35.6 degrees centigrade.
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    The world's deadliest recorded earthquake occurred in 1557 in central China, more than 830,000 people were killed.
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    Sunlight can penetrate clean ocean water to a depth of 240 feet.
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    Only 3% water of the earth is fresh, rest 97% salted. Of that 3%, over 2% is frozen in ice sheets and glaciers. Means less than 1% fresh water is found in lakes, rivers and underground.
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    The total surface area of the Earth is 197 million square miles.
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    Louisiana loses about 30 square miles (78 square kilometers) of land each year to coastal erosion, hurricanes, other natural and human causes and a thing called subsidence, which means sinking.
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    The word "Arctic" comes from the ancient Greek Arktikos, or "country of the great bear." Though the Greeks had no knowledge of the polar bear, they named the region after the constellation Ursus Major, the Great Bear, found in the Northern Sky.
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    About 540 volcanoes on land are known. No one knows how many undersea volcanoes have erupted through history.
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    The deepest depth in the ocean is 36,198 feet (6.9 miles or 11 kilometers) at the Mariana Trench, in the Pacific Ocean well south of Japan near the Mariana Islands.
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    A huge underground river runs underneath the Nile, with six times more water than the river above.
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    In 1934, a gust of wind reached 371 km/h on Mount Washington in New Hampshire, USA.
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    Angel Falls in Venezuela is the worlds highest waterfall, The water of Falls drops 3,212 feet (979 meters).
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    Average 100 lightning strikes occur worldwide every second.
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    Earth is tipped at 23 and 1/2 degrees in orbit. That axis is what causes our seasons.
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    Each winter there are about 1 septillion (1, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000 or a trillion trillion) snow crystals that drop from the sky.
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    Earth's atmosphere is actually about 80 percent nitrogen. Most of the rest is oxygen, with tiny amounts of other stuff thrown in.
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    The deepest hole ever made by humans is in Kola Peninsula in Russia, was completed in 1989, creating a hole 12,262 meters (7.6 miles) deep.
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    Each Wonder (in 7 wonders) has its own intrigue. Historian agree that the Pyramids stood the test of time, the Lighthouse is the only Wonder that has a practical secular use, and the Temple of Artemis was the most beautiful of all Wonders.
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    The Angel Falls in Venezuela is the world's highest waterfall (979 meters / 3212 ft.), three times the size of the Eiffel Tower.
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    Groundwater comprises a 30 times greater volume than all freshwater lakes, and more than 3,000 times what's in the world's streams and rivers at any given time.
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    The Arctic stays black and fiercely cold for months on end. In the High Arctic, the sun sets in October and does not rise again until late February.
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    The hottest planet in the solar system is Venus, with an estimated surface temperature of 864 F (462 C).
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    The industrial complex of Cubatao in Brazil is known as the Valley of Death because its pollution has destroyed the trees and rivers nearby.
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    The gravity on Mars is 38% of that found on Earth. So a 100 pounds person on Earth would weigh 38 pounds on Mars.
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    One-tenth of the Earth's surface is always under the cover of ice. And almost 90 per cent of that ice is to be found in the continent of Antarctica.
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    The greatest tide change on earth occurs in the Bay of Fundy. The difference between low tide and high tide can be as great as 54 ft. 6 in. (16.6 meters).
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    The sunrays reached at the earth in 8 minutes & 3 seconds.
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    Only 11 percent of the earth's surface is used to grow food.
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    The largest recorded snowflake was 15in wide and 8in thick. It fell in Montana in 1887.
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    American Roy Sullivan has been struck by lighting a record seven times.
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    Antarctica is the highest, driest, and coldest continent on Earth.
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    The largest eggs in the world are laid by a shark.
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    The blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus, is the largest known animal ever to have lived on sea or land. Individuals can reach more than 110 feet and weigh nearly 200 tons, more than the weight of 50 adult elephants.
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    The most dangerous animal in the world is the common housefly. Because of their habits of visiting animal waste, they transmit more diseases than any other animal.
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    Monaco is the Highest Density Country of the world, 16,205 people per square k.m. live in Monaco.
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    Earth's oceans are an average of 2 Miles deep
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    The temperature of Earth increases about 36 degrees Fahrenheit (20 degrees Celsius) for every kilometer (about 0.62 miles) you go down.
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    Life began in the seas 3.1 billion to 3.4 billion years ago. Land dwellers appeared 400 million years ago, a relatively recent point in the geologic time line.
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    The age of the earth is Loudly proclaimed by the scientific establishment of evolution believers and the mass media as being around 4.6 billion years old.
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    The people who live on Tristan da Cunha are over 2,000km (about 1,300 miles) from their nearest neighbours on the island of St. Helena. That's nearly as far as Moscow is from London.
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    The water that falls on a single acre of land during one inch of rainfall, it would weigh 113 tons that is 226,000 pounds.
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    Rain has never been recorded in some parts of the Atacama Desert in Chile.
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    The Earth is the densest major body in the solar system.
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    The Peregrine Falcon around 200mph (320 km/h) is the fastest bird on the planet, the top speed recorded is 242.3mph (390 km/h).
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    The flower with the world's largest bloom is the Rafflesia arnoldii. This rare flower is found in the rainforests of Indonesia. It can grow to be 3 feet across and weigh up to 15 pounds.
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    Blue whales are found throughout the world's oceans, the lifespan is estimated to be 80 years & population is between 1300 & 2000 only, its dangerously low.
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    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.
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    Total fertility rate of the world is 2.59 children born/woman. Niger is 7.46 (highest), India is 2.73, US is 2.09 & Hong Kong is 0.95 only (Lowest).
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    About 70% of the world's fresh water is stored as glacial ice.
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    A 1960 Chilean earthquake was the strongest earthquake in recent times, which occurred off the coast, had a magnitude of 9.6 and broke a fault more than 1000 miles (1600 kilometers) long.
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    Lake Bosumtwi in Ghana formed in a hollow made by a meteorite.
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    About 20 to 30 volcanoes erupt each year, mostly under the sea.
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    El Azizia in Libya recorded a temperature of 136 degrees Fahrenheit (57.8 Celsius) on Sept. 13, 1922 - the hottest ever measured.
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    The highest temperature produced in a laboratory was 920,000,000 F (511,000,000 C) at the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor in Princeton, NJ, USA.
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    Continents are typically defined as landmasses made of low-density rock that essentially floats on the molten material below. Greenland fits this description.
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    The world's windiest place is Commonwealth Bay, Antartica with winds regularly exceeding 150 miles per hour.
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    The coldest temperature ever measured on Earth was -129 Fahrenheit (-89 Celsius) at Vostok, Antarctica, on July 21, 1983.
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    The Antarctic ice sheet is 3-4 km thick, covers 13 million sq km and has temperatures as low as -70 degrees centigrade.
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    The distance from the surface of Earth to the center is about 3,963 miles (6,378 kilometers).
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    Baikal Lake in Russian Fed. is the deepest lake (5315 ft) in the world.
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    The Pacific Ocean has an average depth of 2.4 miles (3.9 kilometers).
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    At least 1,000 million grams, or roughly 1,000 tons of material (dust) enters the atmosphere every year and makes its way to Earths surface.
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    In 1783 an Icelandic eruption threw up enough dust to temporarily block out the sun over Europe.
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    Luxembourg is the richest country of the world, the gross national product (GNP) of Luxembourg is $45,360.
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    The largest meteorite crater in the world is in Winslow, Arizona. It is 4,150 feet across and 150 feet deep.
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    There are between 100,000,000,000 and 1,000,000,000,000 stars in a normal galaxy.
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    Lake Baikal is about 20 million years old and contains 20 percent of Earth's fresh liquid water.
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    Nearly 70 percent of the Earth's fresh-water supply is locked up in the icecaps of Antarctica and Greenland. The remaining fresh-water supply exists in the atmosphere, streams, lakes, or groundwater and accounts for a mere 1 percent of the Earth's total.
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    Laika (dog) became the world's first space traveler. Russian scientists sent the small animal aloft in an artificial earth satellite in 1957.
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    The lowest dry point on earth is the Dead Sea in the Middle East is about 1300 feet (400 meters) below sea level.
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    Total fertility rate of the world is 2.59 children born/woman.
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    Tibet is the highest country in the world. Its average height above sea level is 4500 meters.
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    The EARTH has over 1,200,000 species of animals, 300,000 species of plants & 100,000 other species.
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    Chile (Africa) is the driest place on Earth, gets just 0.03 inches (0.76 millimeters) of rain per year.
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    The Largest Ocean of the World is the Pacific Ocean (155,557,000 sq km), It covers nearly one-third of the Earth's surface.
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    Earth is the only planet on which water can exist in liquid form on the surface.
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    Global Positioning System (GPS) is the only system today that can show your exact position on the Earth anytime, in any weather, no matter where you are!
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    The origin of the word "volcano" is derives from Vulcan, the Roman god of fire.
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    Mars days are 24 hours and 37 minutes long, compared to 23 hours, 56 minutes on Earth.
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    The warmest sea in the world is the Red Sea, where temperatures range from 68 degrees to 87.8 degrees F depending upon which part you measure.
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    The oceans contain 99 percent of the living space on the planet.
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    About one-third surface of the Earth's land is desert.
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    Shanghai, China is the largest city by population (13.3 million) in the world.
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    United Arab Emirates is only the country where death rate 2.11/1000 (deaths/1,000 population) is lowest (2009 est.) in the world.
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    The temperature of Earth near the center, its thought to be at least 7,000 degrees Fahrenheit (3,870 Celsius).
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    Earth is referred to as the BLUE PLANET. Because from space, the oceans combined with our atmosphere make our planet look blue.
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    Of the more than 600 million school-age children in the developing world, 120 million primary school-age children are not in school, 53 percent are girls.
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    The World's largest hot desert is the Sahara in North Africa, at over 9,000,000 km, it is almost as large as the United States.
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    Mars has two satellites, Phobos and Deimos. The Earth has only one natural satellite, but it's the Moon.
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    Coniferous forest belt supplies most of the world's requirement of newsprint.
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    The saltiest sea in the world is the Red Sea with 41 parts of salt per 1,000 parts of water.
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    Scientists estimate that more than three-quarters of Earth's surface is of volcanic origin, that is, rocks either erupted by volcanoes or molten rock.
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    The red planet "Mars" takes 687 Earth-days to go around the Sun, compared to 365 days for Earth.
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    The Skylab astronauts grew 1.5 - 2.25 inches (3.8 - 5.7 centimeters) due to spinal lengthening and straightening as a result of zero gravity.
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    Most earthquakes are triggered less than 50 miles (80 kilometers) from the surface of the Earth.
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    The Sahara Desert in northern Africa is more than 23 times the size of southern California's Mojave Desert.
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    Australia, (7,617.930 sq km) is widely considered part of a continental landmass, not officially an island. But without doubt it is the largest island on the planet, and when combined with Oceania, the smallest continent on Earth.
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    The Sarawak Chamber in Malaysia is the largest cave in the world is 2300 feet (701 meters) long, 1300 feet (400 meters) wide, and more than 230 feet (70 meters) high.
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    The eruption of Tambora volcano is the world's deadliest Volcano in Indonesia in 1815 is estimated to have killed 90,000 people.
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    The top three countries have the greatest number of historically active volcanoes are Indonesia, Japan, and the United States in descending order of activity.
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    Birth Rate of Hong Kong is the lowest (7.29/1000) & Niger is highest (50.73/1000).
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    The world's largest island is Greenland, it covers 840,000 square miles (2,176,000 square kilometers).
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    English is the second most spoken language (Native speakers 512 million) & the first is Chinese Mandarin (more then 1 billion speakers).
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    The Nile River in Africa is the longest river (6,825 kilometers) of the earth.
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    Water-meal or Wolffia globosa is the smallest flower in the world, its contains some 38 species of the smallest and simplest flowering plants.
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    The Mauna Loa volcano in Hawaii is the largest volcanoon on Earth. It rises more than 50,000 feet (9.5 miles or 15.2 kilometers) above its base, which sits under the surface of the sea.
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    The coldest seas are found near the poles such as the Greenland, Barents, Beaufort, Kara, Laptev & East Siberian Seas found near the north pole & Weddell & Ross Seas found in the south poles. The Baltic Sea is also considered one of the coldest seas.
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    Tremendous erosion at the base of Niagara Falls (USA) undermines the shale cliffs and as a result the falls have receded approximately 7 miles over the last 10,000 years.
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    The White Sea, in Russia, has the lowest temperature, only -2 degrees centigrade.
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    Northern Mariana Islands is only the country where death rate (2.29/1000) is lowest in the world.
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    The fastest 'regular' wind that's widely agreed upon was 231 mph (372 kph), recorded at Mount Washington, New Hampshire, on April 12, 1934.
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    Caspian Sea, Asia-Europe is the major lake (371,000 sq km) in the world.
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    Some of the oldest mountains in the world are the Highlands in Scotland . They are estimated to be about 400 million years old.
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    Mount Everest 8850 meter (29035 ft) Nepal/China is the tallest mountain.
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    The total water supply of the world is 326 million cubic miles (1 cubic mile of water equals more than 1 trillion gallons).
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    The Arabian Sea and the Persian Gulf are connected by the Hormuz Strait.
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    The dormant volcano Mauna Kea (on the Big Island of Hawaii) could be considered the tallest mountain in the world. If you measure it from its base in the Hawaiian Trough (3,300 fathoms deep) to its summit of 13,796 feet, it reaches a height of 33,476 feet.
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    In January and February, the average temperature in the high Arctic is -29 F.
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    The Pacific Ocean is the largest ocean, covers 64 million square miles (165 million square kilometers). It is more than two times the size of the Atlantic.
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