Monday 19 March 2012

Facts make life interesting

Lake Mead is the largest man-made lake and reservoir in the United States. Formed by water impounded by Hoover Dam, it extends 110 mi (180 km) behind the dam, holding approximately 28.5 million acre feet (35 km³) of water.

Earth is the only planet on which water can exist in liquid form on the surface.

Scientists estimate that more than three-quarters of Earth’s surface is of volcanic origin, that is, rocks either erupted by volcanoes or molten rock.

Birth Rate of Hong Kong is the lowest (7.29/1000) & Niger is highest (50.73/1000).

United Arab Emirates is only the country where death rate 2.11/1000 (deaths/1,000 population) is lowest (2009 est.) in the world.

The Antarctic Ice Sheet holds nearly 90 percent of the world’s ice and 70 percent of its fresh water. If the entire ice sheet were to melt, sea level would rise by nearly 220 feet.

The Arabian Sea and the Persian Gulf are connected by the Hormuz Strait.

The top three countries have the greatest number of historically active volcanoes are Indonesia, Japan, and the United States in descending order of activity.

The fastest ‘regular’ wind that’s widely agreed upon was 231 mph (372 kph), recorded at Mount Washington, New Hampshire, on April 12, 1934.

The Pacific Ocean is the largest ocean, covers 64 million square miles (165 million square kilometers). It is more than two times the size of the Atlantic.

Some of the oldest mountains in the world are the Highlands in Scotland . They are estimated to be about 400 million years old.

The eruption of Tambora volcano is the world’s deadliest Volcano in Indonesia in 1815 is estimated to have killed 90,000 people.

The dormant volcano Mauna Kea (on the Big Island of Hawaii) could be considered the tallest mountain in the world. If you measure it from its base in the Hawaiian Trough (3,300 fathoms deep) to its summit of 13,796 feet, it reaches a height of 33,476 feet.

Caspian Sea, Asia-Europe is the major lake (371,000 sq km) in the world.

The Nile River in Africa is the longest river (6,825 kilometers) of the earth.

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