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- Glaciers and Ice Sheets Hold About 69 Percent of The World's Freshwater.
- The Fastest Gust of Wind Ever Recorded on Earth Was 253 Miles Per hour.
- Recent Droughts in Europe Were The Worst in 2,100 years.
- The Best Place in The World to See Rainbows Is in Hawaii.
- There Are Fossilized Plants in Greenland Under 1.4 Km of Ice.
- Whale Songs Can Be Used to Map Out The Ocean Floor.
- New Creatures Have Been Found in Deep-Sea Volcanoes.
- Mount Everest Is Bigger Now Than The Last Time It Was measured.
- Climate Change Is Causing Flowers to Change Color.
- Dentistry Is The Oldest Profession in The World.
Just over 96 percent of the total amount of the world's water is held in its oceans, according to Water in Crisis: A Guide to the World's Fresh Water Resourcesvia the United States Geological Survey (USGS). However, that's primarily saltwater. To find the bulk of the world's freshwater, you need to trek to the poles, as 68.7 percent of it is encase...
Hang on to your hats because this isn't your average wind storm. In 1996, a tropical cyclone named Olivia hit off the coast of Barrow Island, Australia with such force that it broke an incredible record. According to The Weather Channel, "Olivia's eyewall produced five extreme three-second wind gusts, the peak of which was a 253 mph gust," which bl...
Europe has been experiencing serious dry spells and extreme heat since 2015, which has caused major droughts. Research done led by the University of Cambridge (and published on the National Centers for Environmental Informationwebsite) looked at isotopes in the rings of old European Oak trees in Central Europe which formed over thousands of years t...
If you're an avid rainbow gazer and want to get your fill of the beautiful phenomenon, look no further than the state of Hawaii. A 2021 study published by the American Meteorological Societynoted that the area's "mountains produce sharp gradients in clouds and rainfall, which are key to abundant rainbow sightings." Air pollution, pollen, and a larg...
Around 80 percent of Greenland is covered by the Greenland Ice Sheet, which Britannica explains is the "largest and possibly the only relic of the Pleistocene glaciations in the Northern Hemisphere." But has it always been so icy? Well, at the bottom of a 1.4 km core sample, which was taken in 1966 at Camp Century, researchers found "well-preserved...
Fin whales are basically the Barry White of the ocean. The deep, bellowing songs that males use to attract mates are considered to be the loudest of all marine life and can be "heard up to 1,000 kilometers (600 miles) away," according to Scientific American. They can also be used to sonically map out the ocean floor thanks to the fact that the soun...
Finding previously undiscovered organisms in the depths of the ocean may sound like something straight out of a sci-fi horror film, but a 2020 study of a deep-sea volcano near New Zealand, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, uncovered "over 90 putative bacterial and archaeal genomic families...
Mount Everest may not have physically grown, having reached maturitya long time ago, but the most recent measurement performed by surveyors representing China and Nepal has the mountain peak standing taller than we'd thought in the past. Previous readings have ranged from 29,002 feet above sea level in 1856 down to 20,029 in 1955, according to NPR....
Don't worry, your prized red roses aren't going to turn turquoise overnight, but an increase in UV radiation due to the ozone layer deteriorating over the past decades has caused flowers all over the globe to change. A 2020 study led by Clemson University scientists determined that the UV pigmentation in flowershas increased over time which has led...
Dentistry goes all the way back to when humans first had teeth… well, not quite that long. However, one study found evidence of teeth being drilledin skulls that dates from 7,500 to 9,000 years ago. The holes were likely made using a prehistoric bow drill. Could that be the work of the first dentist? Other biting researchconducted by the University...
- Europe has a rainforest. It’s surprising, but it’s true. Rainforests can grow in Europe’s temperate climate, the kind called temperate rainforests. Europe’s rainforest is in Bosnia and Herzegovina, near the Montenegrin border.
- Three of the Cradles of Civilization are in Asia. Cradles of Civilization are where natural conditions allowed the first civilizations to rise. The most important of these conditions are plenty of water and fertile soil for farming.
- The Amazon Rainforest is the biggest rainforest on Earth. Located in South America, the Amazon Rainforest covers an area of 5.5 million km². This is further shown by how nine countries share the rainforest.
- Rio de Janeiro has one of the new Seven Wonders of the World. One of the most iconic sights in Rio de Janeiro is the statue of Christ the Redeemer. Depicting Christ with his arms spread in welcome, the statue stands 30 meters tall.
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Feb 29, 2024 · The world's record-holding tallest man lived and died in America. Robert Wadlow of Illinois was 8 feet 11.1 inches tall. His growth continued right up to his death at the age of 22 in 1940. He weighed 439 pounds. Nepal's Flag Is Mountainous. Nepal's flag is the only flag in the world that is not a rectangle.
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- Why we can’t tickle ourselves. Even if you’re incredibly ticklish, you may have noticed that tickling yourself doesn’t actually work. So why is that? According to research out of University College London, when we try to tickle ourselves, a part of our brain called the cerebellum predicts the sensation.
- Earth isn’t perfectly round. Time for some literal world facts: Earth’s radius at the equator is 3,963 miles (6,378 km), according to NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.
- Narnia is based on a real-life place. Believe it or not, the fictional location of Narnia, from C.S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia book series, is based on a real place.
- The largest stadium in the world is in North Korea. There are some massive sports stadiums, but one is the biggest of them all. It’s called the Rungrado 1st of May Stadium, and it’s located in North Korea.
Jul 2, 2020 · Summary. 1) It snows in the Sahara Desert. 2) There are only two countries in the world where Coca Cola does not exist. 3) Sudan has the most pyramids in the world (not Egypt) 4) Colombia’s brightest rainbow is in its river. 5) The Sahara Desert used to be a tropical rainforest.
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