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- The distance from the earth to the moon is approximately 238,855 miles.
- The highest temperature ever recorded on Earth was 134.1°F (56.7°C) in Furnace Creek Ranch, Death Valley, USA.
- Africa has the most countries of any continent with 54.
- Bees have five eyes – two large compound eyes and three smaller ocelli eyes in the center of their head.
- The highest waterfall in the world is Angel Falls in Venezuela.
- The Amazon River discharges 5 times the volume of water of the next largest river, the Congo.
- The oldest active volcano on Earth is Mt. Etna in Italy.
- Nikola Tesla, the inventor, and engineer, was born during a lightning storm.
- The hardest natural substance on Earth is diamond.
- An adult human body consists of about 60% water.
- Light from the sun takes about 8 minutes 20 seconds to reach Earth.
- Dolphins have names for each other and can call out for each other specifically.
- Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system.
- The first human to journey into outer space was Yuri Gagarin on 12th April 1961.
- The coldest place in the universe is the Boomerang Nebula, with a temperature that goes below -272.15 Celsius.
- The Eiffel Tower can be 15 cm taller during the summer due to the expansion of the iron on hot days.
- The largest species of penguin is the Emperor Penguin.
- The concept of zero as a number was invented in India.
- The world’s largest amphibian is the Chinese giant salamander.
- Alaska is the only state in America that can be typed on one row of a traditional English QWERTY keyboard.
