Every second the Earth is struck about hundred times by lightning, while four times more lightnings flash in the sky. Lightning can be anywhere from 60 meters to 30 kilometers long.
The tallest waterfall on Earth is Angel Falls in Venezuela. There the river Kerep falls from the height of 979 meters.
Honey is the only food that will never spoil.
Chickens in China annually lay about 160 billion eggs. If we made an omelet out of them, every inhabitant of the Earth would get a piece of omelet with a diameter of one meter.
The term "redskins", Indians acquired, not because of the color of their skin, but because of the red color they put on their skin when they went to war.
The largest country in the world is Russia, it has 37.000 kilometers of coastline and it reaches three oceans: Atlantic, Arctic, and the Pacific Ocean.
