The Pacific Ring of Fire contains approximately 75% of the world's active and dormant volcanoes.

The Petronas Towers were once the tallest buildings in the world.

Mount Everest is not the closest point to space — that title goes to Mount Chimborazo in Ecuador due to Earth's equatorial bulge.

The Atacama Desert in Chile is so dry that some weather stations there have never recorded rain.

New Zealand was the first country to give women the right to vote, in 1893.

The Andes mountain range runs along the western edge of South America.

The Sahara Desert is one of the largest deserts in the world.

The shortest commercial flight in the world is between two Scottish islands — it lasts about 90 seconds.

There are places in Antarctica where no rain has fallen for millions of years.