The Sahara desert is commonly thought to be made up of mostly sand, when in fact sand barely covers 15% of this massive area. The rest is covered by rock and mountainous terrain.
At Dinosaur Ridge in Colorado state, you can hike on a 1.5 mile (2.4 km) trail of dinosaur footprints. There are 300 footprints embedded in the ground.
There are an average of 44,000 thunderstorms on earth every day. 16 million per year.
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The world fastest unassisted swim across the English Channel is 6 hours and 58 minutes. The distance is approximately 33km (21 miles). Due to the currents, the actual swimming distance is much longer.
The longest passenger plane in the world is the Boeing 747-8I. It is 76.3m (250ft) long.
Each main cable in San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge is made of 27,572 individual thinner wires. It took 80,000 miles (128,748km) of wire to make up each cable, which has a final diameter of 36.3 inches (92.4cm).
Of the 1,000 active volcanoes on Earth, only 30 of them are known to erupt.
The coldest temperature ever recorded on our planet is -89.2 °C (-128.6 °F). It was recorded in Antarctica, the coldest, driest, windiest and highest continent on Earth.
The city of Hamburg, Germany has more bridges within it's city limits than any other city in the world; a total of about 2300. Amsterdam has about 1200 bridges and Venice about 400.
Japan is the "vending machine capital of the world." Beer, whiskey, cigarettes, underwear, sausages, rice, eggs and potted plants are just a few of the many items you'd find in Japanese vending machines.
The world's longest railroad spans more than 8,000 miles. It takes 21 days to travel from start to finish, beginning in China and ending in Spain.
The footwear company Nike was named after Nike the Greek goddess of victory.
There is a town in Canada called Dildo. It won the 2001 Harrowsmith Magazine Award as one of the ten prettiest small towns in Canada.
As of 2014, Chicago O'Hare airport is the busiest airport in the world, managing to juggle more than 1,780 aircraft per day.
The fastest plane in the world is NASA's Boeing X-43A Scramjet, flying in the record books at a speed of Mach 9.6, or 7,350 mph (11,760 km/h).
The Pacific Ocean is the biggest ocean in the world, accounting for 32% of the world's total surface area. That's slightly more than all the land in the world combined.
