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World's Biggest Swimming Pool is in Chile? ... In Chile, You Can Find the Driest Place on Earth, The Atacama Desert. ... Chile is a World Class Wine Destination, and the Ninth Largest Producer of Wine. ... Easter Island. ... Penguins in Chile. ... Valparaiso. ... Chile's Andes Mountains Has Some of the World's Largest and Still Active Volcanoes.More items...

Alabama introduced the Mardi Gras to the western world. ... Alabama workers built the first rocket to put humans on the moon.The world's first Electric Trolley System was introduced in Montgomery in 1886.Alabama is the only state with all major natural resources needed to make iron and steel.More items...

Barack Obama was born on August 4, 1961 at the Kapi'olani Medical Center in Honolulu, Hawaii. In Swahili, his name "Barack" means "one who is blessed." He was the first President to be born in the State of Hawaii. He was born to Stanley (Ann) Dunham, an American, and Barack Obama, Sr. , from Kenya.

Earth's mass is divided into an inner core, outer core, mantle, and crust. The crust is outermost layer of the earth, 3–44 miles (5–70 km) thick and representing less than 1% of the earth's total volume.

White House FactsThere are 132 rooms, 32 bathrooms, and 6 levels to accommodate all the people who live in, work in, and visit the White House. ... At various times in history, the White House has been known as the "President's Palace," the "President's House," and the "Executive Mansion."More items...

Here are 10 facts about Saturn, some you may know, and some you probably didn't know.Saturn is the least dense planet in the Solar System. ... Saturn is a flattened ball. ... The first astronomers thought the rings were moons. ... Saturn has only been visited 4 times by spacecraft. ... Saturn has 62 moons.More items...

Iron is the sixth most common element in the universe. Iron is the fourth most abundant element in the Earth's crust by weight. It is the most abundant element in the total composition of the planet. Iron is found in both the inner and outer core of Earth.

Happy rabbits practice a cute behavior known as a “binky:” they jump up in the air and twist and spin around! A baby rabbit is called a kit, a female is called a doe, and a male is a buck. A group of rabbits is called a herd. Rabbits are herbivores, eating a diet entirely of grasses and other plants.

Geographical FactsAngel Falls in Venezuela is the highest uninterrupted waterfall in the world. ... The Atacama Desert in Chile is considered the driest place in the world. ... The Amazon River has the largest water volume of any river in the world. ... The Andes Mountains is the longest mountain range in the world.More items...

"Beulah red" is the name of the red marble that gives the Colorado State Capitol its distinctive splendor. ... Colorado is the only state in history, to turn down the Olympics. ... The United States Air Force Academy is located in Colorado Springs.The world's largest flat-top mountain is in Grand Mesa.More items...

There are over 4000 different types of minerals. Only around 30 of these are commonly found in the Earth's crust. Examples of minerals include calcite, gypsum, feldspar, pyrite, gold, quartz and diamond. The precious gems ruby and sapphire are varieties of the mineral corundum.

Eastport is the most eastern city in the United States. ... In Wilton there's a cannery that imports and cans only dandelion greens.Maine is the only state in the United States whose name has one syllable.Maine is the only state that shares its border with only one other state.Bath is known as the City of Ships.More items...

Louisiana has the tallest state capitol building in the United States; the building is 450 feet tall with 34 floors.Metairie is home to the longest bridge over water in the world, the Lake Pontchartrain causeway. ... Breaux Bridge is known as the "Crawfish Capital of the World".More items...

Teach others about the importance of the environment and how they can help save rainforests.Restore damaged ecosystems by planting trees on land where forests have been cut down.Encourage people to live in a way that doesn't hurt the environment.Establish parks to protect rainforests and wildlife.More items...

There are four major types of desert in this biome - hot and dry, semiarid, coastal, and cold. They are all able to inhabit plant and animal life that are able to survive there. Interesting Desert Biome Facts: Although the daytime temperatures of the desert biome are very hot, they can get very cold at night.

Oregon's state flag pictures a beaver on its reverse side. ... Oregon has more ghost towns than any other state.The Columbia River gorge is considered by many to be the best place in the world for windsurfing.Crater Lake is the deepest lake in the United States and is formed in the remains of an ancient volcano.More items...

World War I formally ended on November 11th, at the 11th hour. It is also the 11th month. Originally, when known as Armistice Day, it was meant to honor those who died in World War I, but when it was amended in the early 1940s, it was changed to honor all the veterans who have served in the U.S. military.

Bolivia is one of two landlocked South American countries, the other being Paraguay. ... Like in Ecuador and Peru, cuy (guinea pig) is used and eaten as a traditional meat. ... El Penal de San Pedro (Saint Peter's Prison) in La Paz is famous for its walled society.

Interesting Connecticut FactsGarnet is Connecticut's state mineral.Eubrontes is the state fossil, visit Dinosaur State Park in Rocky Hill to learn more.The highest peak in Connecticut is Bear Mountain.The highest elevation in Connecticut is the slope of Mount Frissel at 2380' (the peak, 2,453' is in MA).More items...

8 Interesting Facts about Honduras:Learn more fun facts about traveling in Honduras.Christopher Columbus discovered Honduras. ... The Bay Islands sit on the second largest coral reef in the world.Copan Mayan Ruins are considered the most important ruins for the fully intact hieroglyphs.More items...

El Salvador – IMPORTANT AND INTERESTING FACTSEl Salvador is known as the Land of Volcanoes. ... El Salvador is the only country in Central America that does not have a coastline on the Caribbean Sea.Coffee, sugar, corn, rice, shrimp, and beef are the main agricultural products in El Salvador.More items...

Montana has the largest migratory elk herd in the nation. The state boasts the largest breeding population of trumpeter swans in the lower United States. At the Rocky Mountain Front Eagle Migration Area west of Great Falls more golden eagles have been seen in a single day than anywhere else in the country.

Delaware was the first state to ratify the United States constitution. ... Delaware shares a semi-circular border with Pennsylvania. ... The nation's first scheduled steam railroad began in New Castle in 1831.The United States battleship Delaware was commissioned in 1910.More items...

Nebraska Facts and Trivia. Nebraska was once called "The Great American Desert". In 1927, Edwin E. Perkins of Hastings invented the powered soft drink Kool-Aid. ... The state nickname used to be the "Tree Planter's State", but was changed in 1945 to the "Cornhusker State".

The other four layers include the stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere, and exosphere. The troposphere is the lowest layer of the atmosphere, closest to the earth's surface. Its depth is different at different regions of the earth, being deeper in the warmer regions and shallower in the colder regions.

Facts about the Tundra BiomeThe word tundra comes from a Finnish word tunturi, which means treeless plain or barren land.The tundra is a very fragile biome that is shrinking as the permafrost melts.Lemmings are small mammals that burrow under the snow to eat grasses and moss during the winter.More items...

Circulatory System. The heart beats around 3 billion times in the averages person's life. About 8 million blood cells die in the human body every second, and the same number are born each second. Within a tiny droplet of blood, there are some 5 million red blood cells.

In May 1804, President Thomas Jefferson dispatched Meriwether Lewis and William Clark's Corps of Discovery on an expedition to explore the Louisiana Purchase and hunt for an all-water route across the North American continent.Oct 26, 2015

Mars Facts. Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun and is the second smallest planet in the solar system. Named after the Roman god of war, Mars is also often described as the “Red Planet” due to its reddish appearance. Mars is a terrestrial planet with a thin atmosphere composed primarily of carbon dioxide.

It is the sixth most abundant metal in the Earth's crust. Sodium was first isolated from sodium hydroxide by Humphry Davy in 1807. Sodium is a vital element for living organisms. Of the twenty known isotopes of sodium, only one—Na-23—is stable.

Asteroids are small, rocky objects that orbit the Sun. The first asteroid was Ceres, discovered by Giuseppe Piazzi in 1801. There are currently over 600,000 known asteroids in our solar system. Most asteroids are found orbiting in the Asteroid Belt, a series of rings located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.

They are found in vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, and algae. Chloroplast organelles are responsible for photosynthesis , the process by which sunlight is absorbed and converted into fixed chemical energy in the form of simple sugars synthesized from carbon dioxide and water.

The mantle is the mostly-solid bulk of Earth's interior. The mantle lies between Earth's dense, super-heated core and its thin outer layer, the crust. The mantle is about 2,900 kilometers (1,802 miles) thick, and makes up a whopping 84% of Earth's total volume.Aug 11, 2015

Interesting Grassland Biome Facts: Grasslands are also known as prairies, pampas, steppes, and savannas. Grassland biomes are normally situated between a forest and a desert. In fact, grasslands surround every desert in Asia.

Moon Facts for KidsThe Moon is the Earth's only natural satellite. ... It is the fifth largest moon in the Solar System. ... The average distance from the Moon to the Earth is 384403 kilometres (238857 miles).The Moon orbits the Earth every 27.3 days.More items...

Below are 35 facts on Tropical Rainforests. Fact 1: Rainforests only cover around 2 percent the total surface area of the Earth, but really about 50 percent of the plants and animals on the earth live in the rainforest. Fact 2: Rainforests are the forests that receive high amount of rainfall.

Here are 10 facts about Saturn, some you may know, and some you probably didn't know.Saturn is the least dense planet in the Solar System. ... Saturn is a flattened ball. ... The first astronomers thought the rings were moons. ... Saturn has only been visited 4 times by spacecraft. ... Saturn has 62 moons.More items...

Mars Facts. Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun and is the second smallest planet in the solar system. Named after the Roman god of war, Mars is also often described as the “Red Planet” due to its reddish appearance. Mars is a terrestrial planet with a thin atmosphere composed primarily of carbon dioxide.

Hera is the Queen of the Gods and is the wife and sister of Zeus in the Olympian pantheon. She is known for being the Goddess of Marriage & Birth. Despite being the Goddess of Marriage, she was known to be jealous and vengeful towards the many lovers and offspring of her husband Zeus.

Interesting Camel Facts: Camels can reach 7 feet in height (at the hump) and weigh up to 1500 pounds. They are specially adapted to the life in desert. Their eyes have three eyelids and two rows of eyelashes that prevent sand to enter their eyes.

The Sun's surface area is 11,990 times that of the Earth's. The Sun contains 99.86% of the mass in the Solar System. The mass of the Sun is approximately 330,000 times greater than that of Earth. It is almost three quarters Hydrogen, whilst most of the remaining mass is Helium.

Facts about the Sun. The Sun accounts for 99.86% of the mass in the solar system. It has a mass of around 330,000 times that of Earth. It is three quarters hydrogen and most of its remaining mass is helium.

One of the most famous members of the Underground Railroad was Harriet Tubman, an escaped slave. She helped to free more than 300 slaves. Quakers in the North, who believed that slavery was wrong, also helped escaping slaves to freedom. Most travel from one safe house to the next was done at night and on foot.

Inner Core Facts. Earth's innermost section is called its inner core, and is believed to be just as hot as the sun's surface. It was once believed that the earth's inner core was liquid, but Inge Lehmann - a seismologist - proved in theory in 1936 that the inner core was solid, and the outer core was liquid.

West Virginia is the only state in the Union to have acquired its sovereignty by proclamation of the President of the United States.West Virginia is considered the southern most northern state and the northern most southern state.Mother's Day was first observed at Andrews Church in Grafton on May 10, 1908.More items...

The thermosphere is the atmosphere's fourth layer, located above the mesosphere and below the exosphere. The thermosphere begins at a distance of approximately 53-56 miles above the earth's surface and extends to between 311 and 621 miles from the earth, where the exosphere begins and extends into space.

Sulfur (S) is a bright yellow non-metallic element with an atomic number of sixteen. It is a naturally occurring element, but can also be extracted from common minerals. Interesting Sulfur Facts: Sulfur has been in use since ancient times and is mentioned in the Bible and the Torah.

While being the lightest metal under normal conditions, it is still the most dense. With an atomic number of three, lithium has three protons in the nucleus, but like many other alkalai metals it has only one valence electron. Interesting Lithium Facts: It is the least reactive of the alkalai metals.

Magnesium (Mg) is an alkaline earth metal with an atomic number of twelve and twelve protons in the nucleus. Humphry Davy isolated it from magnesia and mercuic oxide in 1808. Interesting Magnesium Facts: Magnesium is the eighth most abundant element in the Earth's crust.

The Smallest Planet. Mercury is the smallest planet in the solar system. The diminutive planet is about 3,030 miles (4,876 kilometers) in diameter, making it about the size of the continental United States and only slightly bigger than Earth's moon.Jan 28, 2015

It can be up to 8 feet tall when it stands on back feet. Although grizzly bears are large animals, 75% of their diet is comprised of berries, leaves and nuts. They also like to eat fish, rodents and moose. Animals that eat plants and animals are called "omnivores".

Below are 35 facts on Tropical RainforestsFact 1: Rainforests only cover around 2 percent the total surface area of the Earth, but really about 50 percent of the plants and animals on the earth live in the rainforest.Fact 2: Rainforests are the forests that receive high amount of rainfall.More items...

Key Facts about ProtonsProtons are located in the nucleus of atoms, together with any neutrons also present in the atom.Protons have a positive (+1) charge, which balances the negative (-1) charge of the electrons that surround the nuclei of atoms.More items...

The stratosphere is abundant in ozone, a type of oxygen molecule that absorbs the sun's ultraviolet radiation and uses it to heat this layer in the atmosphere. Interesting Stratosphere Facts: The stratosphere is one of five layers of the atmosphere.

Statue of Liberty Quick FactsThe Statue of Liberty celebrates her birthday on October 28th in honor of the day she was officially accepted by the president of the United States in 1886.Visitors must climb 354 stairs to reach the Statue of Liberty's crown (or take an elevator to a lower lookout point).More items...

Facts about NeptuneIt takes Neptune 164.8 Earth years to orbit the Sun. ... Neptune was discovered by Jean Joseph Le Verrier. ... Neptune is the Roman God of the Sea. ... Neptune has the second largest gravity of any planet in the solar system – second only to Jupiter.More items...

This odorless, colorless gas has eight protons in the nucleus, and is pale blue in its liquid and solid states. Interesting Oxygen Facts: One fifth of the Earth's atmosphere is made up of oxygen and is the third most abundant element in the universe by mass.

It is a member of the metal group, but is a vital nutrient in both plants and animals. Interesting Zinc Facts: Zinc is the 24th most common element in the planet's crust. It makes up approximately seventy-five parts per million, or .0075%, of the Earth's crust.

Interesting Facts about Alkali MetalsBecause they are so reactive with air and water, they are generally stored in oil.Cesium and rubidium are used to make atomic clocks. ... Sodium and potassium both play an important role in biological life on Earth. ... Sometimes cesium is also spelled "caesium."More items...

Facts about UranusUranus was officially discovered by Sir William Herschel in 1781. ... Uranus turns on its axis once every 17 hours, 14 minutes. ... Uranus makes one trip around the Sun every 84 Earth years. ... Uranus is often referred to as an “ice giant” planet. ... Uranus hits the coldest temperatures of any planet.More items...

Boron is fairly rare in the solar system and makes up only 0.001% of the Earth's crust, but its naturally occurring compounds are quite common. Some common compounds of boron are borax, boric acid, colemanite, kernite, ulexite, and borates.

Jacob Berzelius is typically credited with discovering silicon in 1824. It is the eighth most abundant element in the universe by weight. It is almost never found as a pure free element naturally. Silicon makes up slightly more than 27% of the Earth's crust.

The mesosphere is the coldest atmospheric layer surrounding the earth. It becomes cold enough to freeze water vapour in its atmosphere into ice clouds. These ice clouds are blue-white and are called noctilucent clouds or polar mesospheric clouds. These clouds are more visible at sunset from the earth's poles.

Chlorine has been in use for thousands of years in other forms, but it wasn't named until 1810 by Sir Humphry Davy. Only fluorine is a lighter halogen than chlorine. It is the second most common halogen on Earth. The element itself is the 21st most common element, at about 170 parts per million.

The center of the Earth is made up of two layers, the outer core and the inner core. The outer core is the third layer of the Earth. It is the only liquid layer, and is mainly made up of the metals iron and nickel, as well as small amounts of other substances. The outer core is responsible for Earth's magnetic field.

Rattlesnakes are venomous snakes. They produce very strong hemotoxic venom (which destroys blood cells and vessels). It is used for hunting and for defense against predators. Rattlesnake bites are fatal for humans if not treated with antidote immediately.

Facts about the SunThe Sun accounts for 99.86% of the mass in the solar system. ... Over one million Earth's could fit inside the Sun. ... One day the Sun will consume the Earth. ... The energy created by the Sun's core is nuclear fusion. ... The Sun is almost a perfect sphere. ... The Sun is travelling at 220 km per second.More items...

Jupiter Facts. The planet Jupiter is the fifth planet out from the Sun, and is two and a half times more massive than all the other planets in the solar system combined. It is made primarily of gases and is therefore known as a “gas giant”.

Earth Facts. Earth is the third planet from the Sun and is the largest of the terrestrial planets. The Earth is the only planet in our solar system not to be named after a Greek or Roman deity. The Earth was formed approximately 4.54 billion years ago and is the only known planet to support life.

Mars Facts. Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun and is the second smallest planet in the solar system. Named after the Roman god of war, Mars is also often described as the “Red Planet” due to its reddish appearance. Mars is a terrestrial planet with a thin atmosphere composed primarily of carbon dioxide.

While being visible to the naked eye, it was not recognised as a planet due to its dimness and slow orbit. Uranus became the first planet discovered with the use of a telescope. Uranus is tipped over on its side with an axial tilt of 98 degrees. It is often described as “rolling around the Sun on its side.”

Here are 10 fascinating dolphin facts that will make you love them even more.Nearly 40 species of dolphins swim the waters of the world. ... Dolphins are carnivores. ... Known for their playful behavior, dolphins are highly intelligent. ... Dolphins are part of the family of whales that includes orcas and pilot whales.More items...

There are more than 3,000 rivers and 3 million lakes in Alaska.Alaska's largest lake, Lake Iliamna, is roughly the size of Connecticut.Alaska has more coastline than the rest of the United States combined (more than 34,000 miles).Alaska has more inland water than any other state (20,171 square miles).More items...

Facts about PlutoPluto is named after the Greek god of the underworld. ... Pluto was reclassified from a planet to a dwarf planet in 2006. ... Pluto was discovered on February 18th, 1930 by the Lowell Observatory. ... Pluto has five known moons. ... Pluto is the largest dwarf planet. ... Pluto is one third water.More items...

Cuba Facts for KidsThe official name of Cuba is the Republic of Cuba.Cuba is the largest of all islands in the Caribbean. ... From the air, the island of Cuba resembles a crocodile or alligator and so Cuba is often referred to in Spanish as "El Cocodrilo" or "El Caimá".More items...

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