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Iceland is home to more than 100 volcanoes and experiences an earthquake almost every day.
Vatican City is the world's smallest country — it covers just 0.44 square kilometers.
The Nile flows northward — it is one of the few major rivers in the world that flows from south to north.
Canada has more lakes than the rest of the world combined.
The Colosseum in Rome could hold up to 80,000 spectators — comparable to a modern NFL stadium.
There is more water in Earth's mantle than in all the oceans on the surface.
Antarctica is technically a desert — it receives less precipitation than the Sahara.
Mount Everest is not the closest point to space — due to Earth's equatorial bulge, Mount Chimborazo in Ecuador is actually closest to the stars.
Russia spans 11 time zones — more than any other country.
The Sahara desert was a green savanna as recently as 5,000 years ago.
Australia is wider than the Moon — Australia is about 4,000 km across, the Moon's diameter is 3,474 km.
There have been five mass extinction events in Earth's history — and we may be in the sixth.
The Eiffel Tower was supposed to be demolished 20 years after its construction in 1889.
Norway has a town called Å.
New Zealand was one of the last places on Earth to be settled by humans, around 1250–1300 CE.
Greenland is the world's largest island — Australia is considered a continent.
The world's deepest lake is Lake Baikal in Russia, containing 20% of the world's unfrozen fresh water.
The Sahara Desert is roughly the same size as the continental United States.
Mount Everest is not the closest point to space — that distinction belongs to Mount Chimborazo in Ecuador, due to Earth's equatorial bulge.
Africa is larger than China, India, the USA, and Europe combined.
Australia is wider than the Moon.
Russia is so large it spans 11 time zones.
Canada has more lakes than every other country combined.
The Great Wall of China is not visible from space with the naked eye — this is a common myth.
Your existence required Earth to remain habitable for billions of years.
China and India together contain over one-third of humanity.
About 90% of humans live in the Northern Hemisphere.
More people live in Asia than the rest of the world combined.
Urban populations now exceed rural populations worldwide.
Roughly 8 billion people currently live on Earth.
Around 90% of the world's population lives in the Northern Hemisphere.
There are abandoned cities hidden around the world that were evacuated suddenly.
The Eiffel Tower can grow over six inches taller in summer.
There are mountains on Earth taller than Everest when measured from base to peak underwater.
Some deserts were once oceans.
Sudan has more pyramids than any country in the world.
Countries with extremely high tax rates sometimes collect less revenue than countries with moderate tax rates.
The largest bowling alley in the world is in Japan and has 116 lanes.
There are places on Earth that have never been explored.
There are places in Antarctica where no rain has fallen for millions of years.
There are caves on Earth so deep they have their own weather systems.
There are abandoned cities on Earth that nature is slowly reclaiming.
Zhangye once stood along the Silk Road as a trade hub.
Akrotiri was preserved under volcanic ash on Santorini.
The city of Jericho is one of the oldest known walled cities.
The Phoenician city of Tyre was built on an island.
Ciudad Perdida in Colombia predates Machu Picchu.
The ancient city of Byblos is one of the oldest continuously inhabited places.
Nan Madol is an ancient city built on artificial islets in Micronesia.
Petra in Jordan was carved into rose-colored rock cliffs.