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Interesting Facts 1

The largest highway system in the world is National Highway System (NHS) in the United States. National Highway System, including the Interstate Highway System...

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Venus, a second planet from the Sun and our closest planetary neighbor is slightly smaller than Earth (similar in structure and size) and the only planet in our...

Interesting Facts 3 - About Animals

Loggerheads sea turtles have no interaction with their parents. Females bury eggs on the beach that hatch 50-60 days later. But the hatchlings seem to be...

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The Earth currently has more than 400 oceanic dead zones, with the count doubling every decade. A single dead zone may cover tens of thousands of square miles.

Interesting Facts 5

Cumulonimbus clouds, or rain producing clouds, may stretch from their base near the Earth's surface to an altitude of 10 kilometers (33,000 feet) or higher.

Interesting Niagara Facts

The flow of water over Niagara Falls is reduced during the night to allow more of the water to flow into intakes used for power generation. This is regulated under...

Funny Facts

If you could stand at the Martian equator, the temperature at your feet would be like a warm spring day, but at your head it would be freezing cold!

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Vatican City is the smallest country in the world based on landmass, measuring just 0.2 square miles and population around 800 citizens, but no-one is born in the...

Some Interesting Space Facts


The radio signal that a spacecraft uses to contact Earth has no more power than a refrigerator light bulb. And by the time the signal has traveled across space, the signal is only one-billionth of one-billionth of one watt!
True to its namesake (the speedy messenger of ancient Ro-man gods), Mercury is the fastest planet in our solar system. It zips around our Sun at an average of 172,000 kilometers per hour (107,000 miles per hour) — about 65,000 kph (40,000 mph) faster than Earth. A year on Mercury is equal to 88 Earth days.
The largest canyon system in the solar system is Valles Marineris on Mars. It’s more than 4,000 kilometers (3,000 miles) long — enough to stretch from California to New York. It is nine times as long and four times as deep as Earth’s Grand Canyon!
Craters at the Moon’s south pole may be the frostiest locale in the entire solar system. In the permanently shadowed crater floors, “daytime” temperatures may never rise above minus 238 degrees Celsius (minus 397 degrees Fahrenheit).
Neptune’s winds are the fastest in the solar system, reaching 2,575 kilometers per hour (1,600 miles per hour)! Neptune’s giant, spinning storms could swallow the whole Earth.
Ceres is the largest, most massive body in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, totaling about a third of the total mass of the entire belt. But Ceres is the smallest of the dwarf planets, which include Pluto and Eris, and the only dwarf planet that resides in the asteroid belt.
If you could lump together all the thousands of known aster-oids in our solar system, their total mass wouldn’t even equal 10 percent of the mass of Earth’s Moon
Saturn is the only planet in our solar system that is less dense than water. It could float in a bathtub if anybody could build a bathtub big enough.
Well! The European languages are members of the same family.
Well! The European languages are members of the same family.
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Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you're a vegetarian.

The only person who always got his work done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe.

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"The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails."
~ William Arthur Ward

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