geography+and+space


 * **You can send a postcard from Hell. There is a small town located in the Cayman Islands called "Hell." They even have a post office.**


 * **Thailand used to be called Siam.**


 * **Astronauts get taller when they are in space.**


 * **There are over one hundred billion galaxies with each galaxy having billions of stars.**


 * **There is an area located off the south-eastern Atlantic coast of the United States called the "Bermuda Triangle." It is known for a high rate of unexplained losses of ships, small boats, and aircraft, which has led some people to believe that this triangle has supernatural powers.**


 * **India used to be the richest country in the world until the British invasion in the early 17th Century.**


 * **There was once a country called Prussia. After World War II, it was divided among Poland, Germany, and the USSR.**


 * **Davao City, located at the Southern state of Philippines, is the largest city in the world in terms of area.**

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 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">**The sun shrinks five feet every hour.**

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 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">**The largest coral reef in the world is the Great Barrier Reef located in Australia. The reef is approximately 2023 kilometers long.**

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 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">**Despite being over 27 times smaller, Norway's total coastline is longer than the USA's.**

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 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">**The word "comet" comes from the Greek word "kometes" meaning long hair and referring to the tail.**

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 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">**In the dry valleys region of Antarctica, it has not rained in 2 million years according to scientists**

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 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">**In the world, the Netherlands has the highest concentration of museums in the world. Just in Amsterdam alone there are 42 museums.**

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 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">**Istanbul, Turkey is the only city in the world located on two continents.**

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 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">**The city of Venice stands on about 120 small islands.**

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 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">**On the Richter scale 1.0 is the equivalent to a construction blast and 5.0 is the equivalent to the Nagasaki bomb. The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, that killed thousands, measured a whopping 9.3.**

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 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">**The only married couple to fly together in space were Jan Davis and Mark Lee, who flew aboard the Endeavor space shuttle from Sept 12-20, 1992.**

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 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">**According to the Gemological Institute of America, up until the 1730's, India was the only source for diamonds in the world.**

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 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">**Angel Falls in Venezuela is the world's highest waterfall, at 979 meters. This waterfall is sixteen times the height of Niagara Falls.**

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 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">**In the Sahara Desert, there is a town named Tidikelt, which did not receive a drop of rain for ten years.**

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 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">**Indonesia consists only of islands - 13,667 altogether.**

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 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">**Pakistan has the world's largest canal based irrigation system.**

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 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">**Persia changed its name to Iran in 1935.**

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 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">**Seven asteroids were especially named for the Challenger astronauts who were killed in the 1986 failed launch of the space shuttle.**