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More than half of the coastline of the entire
Amazon
The Amazon rainforest produces more than 20%
Of the world's oxygen supply.
The Amazon River pushes so much water into the
Ninety percent of the world's ice covers
This ice also represents seventy percent of all the fresh water in the world.
As strange as it sounds, however,
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
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Woodward Avenue in Detroit, Michigan, carries the designation M-1,
So named because it was the first paved road anywhere.
Damascus, Syria, was flourishing a couple of thousand years |
Istanbul, Turkey, is the only city in the world
Located on two continents.
El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de
-- and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size:
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
Is to play the big time - The Big Apple.
There are more Irish in
Than in
More Italians in
Than in
And more Jews in
Than in Tel
There are no natural lakes in the state of
The smallest island with country status is Pitcairn
In
The first city to reach a population of 1 million people
Was
There is a city called
S.M.O..M.
The actual smallest sovereign entity in the world
Is the Sovereign Military Order of
It is located in the city of
Has an area of two tennis courts
And, as of 2001, has a population of 80
-- 20 less people than the
It is a sovereign entity under international law,
Just as the
In the
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
There has been no rainfall there for two million years.
after a man named
who set up the first business there.
Road
Chances that a road is unpaved:
in the U.S.A. . = 1%;
in
The deepest hole ever drilled by man is the
Kola Superdeep Borehole, in
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.
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
drops 3,212 feet (979 meters).
They are 15 times higher than
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