Fascinating Trivia Stuff-Part One

[David357]

Where is the world's coldest place?

East Antarctic Plateau ...

On the high ridge of the East Antarctic Plateau,
the temperature can drop toas low as-135.8 degrees
Fahrenheit, which was recorded in August, 2010.





Where is the world's most populated city?

Shanghai ...

At a whopping 24,150,000 permanent inhabitants,
Shanghai is the only city that is home to over 24 million people in one city.





Where is the world's least populated city? (the picture is the clue)

Vatican City...

With a paltry population of 842, the city-state of Vatican City is the smallest city and state in the world.




Where is the world's wealthiest city?

Tokyo, Japan..

That tower might as well be made of gold since Tokyo tops the charts
with a GDP of $1,520 billion, beating New York City by a mere $310 billion.

 

[David357]

Fascinating Trivia Stuff- Part 2

Where is the world's poorest
city in the poorest country?

Kinshasa, Congo....
it is the poorest city in the Democratic Republic of the Congo,which is also the poorest country in the world, at a GDP of $55 billion.
Many of its residents live on less $1 a day.




What is the highest point in the world?(this one is easy)

Mount Everest ...
Towering 29,029 feet in theair, the top of Mount Everest
is the closest you can get to touching outer space while still standing on Earth.




Where is the lowest point in the world?

The Challenger Deep Trench
It is the lowest known natural point in the world at 35,797 ft below sea level at the bottom of the Mariana Trench.Only three people have ever made it to the bottom in a submersible, one of which was film maker James Cameron.




What is the most photographed place in
the U.S.?

Surprise: the Guggenheim building in New York...
Photos have always told stories, but in today's world of cell phone cameras and social media, that story is relayed asdata to companies who monitor everything we do.
Geotagged data was culledby Sightsmap using a Google-based image sharing software,and can show us the most photographed places in the world, right down to this landmark.
The strange winner is this building in New York City. Guess it impresses a lot of visitors.




Where is the wettest spot on Earth? (and it's not the Amazon!)

Mawsynram, India...
In this city in India, it rains an average of 467.35inches
per year,and has a record of 1000 inches in 1985...much more than any rain forest!

 

[David357]

Fascinating Trivia Stuff- Part Three

Some really interesting stuff:

The YKK on your zipperstands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushikigaisha, a Japanese company that is theworld's largest manufacturer of zippers.

DID YOU KNOW 3.14 is PIE backwards.

Did you know that pineapples grow like this:

Now let's shrink things down. Here's what Velcro looks like close up:

Here's what chalk looks like under a microscope:

And here's what sand looks like under a microscope:

Speaking of sand, there are more stars in space than there are grains ofsand on every beach on Earth:

Thanks to Carl Sagan for this knowledge.

 

[David357]

Fascinating Trivia Stuff- Part Four

Speaking of things that are huge, a Blue Whales heart is so big, a small child can swim through the veins:

There's enough water in Lake Superior to cover all of Northand South America in one foot of water:

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Let's think bigger: If you dug a hole to the center of the Earth and dropped a book down, it would take 45 minutes to reach the bottom:

Here's what Jupiter would look like if it were the same distance to Earth as the Moon:

And here's what a sunset on Mars looks like:

DID YOU KNOW John Tyler, the 10th President of the United States, has a grandson that's alive today:

John Tyler had a son, Lyon, when he was 63. Lyon had a son, Harrison Tyler, at75.

JUST THINK: We know more about the surface of the moon than the bottom of the ocean:

 

[Phu Cat]

Truly fascinating.

PC

 

[David357]

Fascinating Trivia- Part Five


Speaking of the ocean, there are more atoms in a glass of water than glasses of water in all the oceans on Earth:

Now let's talk about time:

Speaking of time: The Ottoman Empire still existed the last time the Chicago Cubs won a World Series:

Keep this in mind, too:

The Great Pyramid was built circa 2560 BC

and Cleopatra lived 69 BC - 30 BC

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and the first Moonlanding was in 1969, AD

which means Cleopatra lived closer to the Moon landing than she did to the building of the Great Pyramid.

Speaking of the pyramids, they were as old to the Romans as the Romans are to us:

 

[David357]

Fascinating Trivia Stuff- Part Six


The difference in time between when Tyrannosaurus Rex and Stegosaurus lived is greater than the difference in time between Tyrannosaurus Rex and now:

In 1903 the Wright Brothers flew for the first time

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38 years later, in 1941, the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor

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and 28 years later, in 1969, man landed on the Moon.

That's 66 years.

Also, did you know that since Pluto was discovered, it hasn't yet completed its orbit around the sun? Will complete in 2178!