The world's highest road is the Marsimik La pass in India — at 5,582 meters above sea level.

The largest island in the world is Greenland.

The Colosseum in Rome was completed in the first century.

The city of Istanbul spans two continents — Europe and Asia.

The world's deepest lake is Lake Baikal in Russia, containing 20% of the world's unfrozen fresh water.

New Zealand was one of the last large landmasses to be settled by humans, around 1250–1300 AD.

The ancient city of Byblos is one of the oldest continuously inhabited places.

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

The first forests appeared during the Devonian period.