GEOGRAPHY

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, ice.), Antarctica is the driest place on the planet, with an absolute humidity lower than the Gobi desert.

Istanbul, Turkey

 Istanbul, Turkey, is the only city in the world located on two continents.

Ohio 

  There are no natural lakes in the state of Ohio, everyone is manmade.

Pitcairn Island 

 

The smallest island with country status is Pitcairn in Polynesia , at just 1.75 sq. miles/4,53 sq. km.

Siberia

 

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

Sahara Desert

 

In the Sahara Desert , there is a town named Tidikelt , Algeria , 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.

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 .