[AGL] Interesting stuff...

[Frances Morey]

This set of factoids came from the same source as the list that stated that Susan Lucci was the daughter of Phyllis Dillar, something that surely would have come out in celebrity news or talk shows if it were true. Still these geographic tidbits sound plausible. Re the lack of rain in Antarctic, supposedly in the Bible god said that there was "empty space" over the poles, long before Copernicus discovered it.
  Frances 
  

      Subject: FW: INTERESTING GEOGRAPHY

      

           Alaska 

  More than half of the coastline of the entire United 
  States is in Alaska. 

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

  Brazil got its name from the nut, not the other way 
  around. 
  
  Canada 

  Canada has more lakes than the rest of the world 
  combined.  Canada is an Indian word meaning 
  "Big Village." 
  
  Chicago 

  Next to Warsaw, Chicago has the largest Polish 
  population in the world. 

  Detroit 

  Woodward Avenue in Detroit, Michigan, carries the 
  designation M-1, named so because it was the first 
  paved road anywhere. 
  
  Damascus, Syria 

  Damascus, Syria, was flourishing a couple of thousand 
  years before Rome was founded in 753 BC, making it 
  the oldest continuously inhabited city in existence. 
  
  Istanbul, Turkey 

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

  Los Angeles 

  Los Angeles's full name is El Pueblo de Nuestra 
  Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula --and 
  can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size:  L.A. 
  
  New York City 

  The term "The Big Apple" was coined by touring jazz 
  musicians of the 1930's who used the slang __expression 
  "apple" for any town or city.  Therefore, to play New 
  York City is to play the big time - The Big Apple. 
  There are more Irish in New York City than in Dublin, 
  Ireland; more Italians in New York City than in Rome, 
  Italy; and more Jews in New York City than in Tel 
  Aviv, Israel. 

  Ohio 

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

  Pitcairn Island 

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

  Rome 

  The first city to reach a population of 1 million 
  people was Rome, Italy in 133 B.C. There is a city 
  called Rome on every continent. 

  Siberia 

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

  S.M.O.M. 

  The actual smallest sovereign entity in the world is 
  the Sovereign Military Order of Malta (S.M.O.M.).  It 
  is located in the city of Rome, Italy, has an area of 
  two tennis courts, and as of 2001 has a population of 
  80, 20 less people than the Vatican.  It is a 
  sovereign entity under international law, just as the 
  Vatican is. 
  
  Sahara Desert 

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

  Spain literally means 'the land of rabbits.' 
  
  St. Paul, Minnesota 

  St. Paul, Minnesota, was originally called Pig's Eye after 
  a man named Pierre "Pig's Eye" Parrant who set up the 
  first business there. 
  
  Roads 

  Chances that a road is unpaved in the U.S.A.: 1%, in 
  Canada: 75%. 
  
  Texas 

  The deepest hole ever made in the world is in Texas.  It 
  is as deep as 20 empire state buildings but only 3 
  inches wide. 
  
  United States 

  The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one-mile 
  in every five must be straight.  These straight sections 
  are usable as airstrips in times of war or other 
  emergencies. 
 
  I have always said you should learn something new every day.  Unfortunately, most of us are at that age where what we learn today, we forget tomorrow.  But, give it a shot anyway!.............Roy
  
  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.  
  So, didn't it feel good to learn something new today???
   


    
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