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%.
TEXAS The deepest hole ever made in the world is in Texas. It is as deep as 20 empire state buildings but only 3 inches wide.
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.
So, didn't it feel good to learn something new ??
I have always said you should learn something new every day. Unfortunately, most of us are at that age where what we learn today, we forget tomorrow. But, give it a shot anyway!
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Monday, February 19, 2007
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
Interesting Facts:Part 1
Happy Valentines Day!
I received the following from a friend and thought I might share them with you.
ALASKA More than half of the coastline of the entire United States is in Alaska.
AMAZON The Amazon rainforest produces more than 20% 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, i.e.), 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.
I received the following from a friend and thought I might share them with you.
ALASKA More than half of the coastline of the entire United States is in Alaska.
AMAZON The Amazon rainforest produces more than 20% 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, i.e.), 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.
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