The Most Interesting Facts!!!

Alaska
 
More than half of the coastline of the entire United States is in Alaska.
  
Amazon 

The Amazon rainforest produces more than 20% the world's oxygen supply. The Amazon River 
pushes so much water into the Atlantic Ocean that, more than one hundred miles at sea, 
off the mouth of the river, one can dip fresh water out of the ocean.  

The volume of water in the Amazon river is greater than the next eight largest rivers 
in the world combined and three times the flow of all rivers in the United States. 
  
Antarctica 

Antarctica is the only land on our planet that is not owned by any
country.   Ninety percent of the world's ice covers Antarctica.

This ice also represents seventy percent of all the fresh water in the world.   
As strange as it sounds, however, Antarctica is essentially a desert.The average 
yearly total precipitation is about two inches.  Although covered with ice 
(all but 0.4% of it, i.e.), Antarctica is the driest place on the planet, 
with an absolute humidity lower than the Gobi desert.
 
Brazil  

Brazil got its name from the nut, not the other way around.
 
Canada 

Canada has more lakes than the rest of the world combined.   
Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village." 
 
Chicago  

Next to Warsaw, Chicago has the largest Polish population in the world.
 
Detroit  

Woodward Avenue in Detroit, Michigan carries the designation M-1,
named so because it was the first paved road anywhere. 
  
Damascus, Syria  

Damascus, Syria, was flourishing a couple of thousand years before
Rome was founded in 753 BC, making it the oldest continuously inhabited city in existence. 
  
Istanbul, Turkey  
 
Istanbul, Turkey is the only city in the world located on two continents.
 
Los Angeles
 
Los Angeles's full name is El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula 
--and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size: L.A.
  
New York City
 
The term "The Big Apple" was coined by touring jazz musicians of the 1930's who used the slang 
expression "apple" for any town or city. Therefore, to play New York City is to play the big time
 - The Big Apple.  There are more Irish in New York City than in Dublin, Ireland; more Italians 
in New York City than in Rome, Italy; and more Jews in New York City than in Tel Aviv, Israel.
  
Ohio 

There are no natural lakes in the state of Ohio, every one is manmade.
  
Pitcairn Island 
 
The smallest island with country status is Pitcairn in Polynesia, at just 1.75 sq. miles/4,53 sq. km. 
 
Rome 
 
The first city to reach a population of 1 million people was Rome, Italy in 133 B.C.  
There is a city called Rome on every continent. 
 
Siberia  

Siberia contains more than 25% of the world's forests.
 
S.M.O.M.

The actual smallest sovereign entity in the world is the Sovereign
Military Order of Malta (S.M.O.M.). It is located in the city of Rome,
Italy, has an area of two tennis courts, and as of 2001 has a population of 80, 
20 less people than the Vatican. It is a sovereign entity under international law, 
just as the Vatican is.
  
Sahara Desert
 
In the Sahara Desert, there is a town named Tidikelt, which did not
receive a drop of rain for ten years. 

Technically though, the driest place on Earth is in the valleys of the
Antarctic near Ross Island. There has been no rainfall there for two
million years. 
  
Spain
 
Spain literally means 'the land of rabbits.'
 
St. Paul Minnesota

St. Paul, Minnesota was originally called Pigs Eye after a man named Pierre 
"Pig's Eye" Parrant who set up the first business there. 
 
Roads 

Chances that a road is unpaved in the U.S.A.: 1%, in Canada: 75%. 
  
Texas
 
The deepest hole ever made in the world is in Texas. It is as deep as 20 
empire state buildings but only 3 inches wide.
 
United States
 
The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one-mile in every five must be straight. 
These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.
  
Waterfalls 
 
The water of Angel Falls (the World's highest) in Venezuela drops 3,212 feet (979 meters). 
They are 15 times higher than Niagara Falls. 

There.....now I bet you learned something.