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With its peak soaring to heights of 6.8 miles (11 km), the tallest mountain on Venus is Maxwell Montes.
All the paint on the Eiffel Tower weighs the same as ten elephants. It gets repainted every seven years without closing to the public.
Between 1990 and 2020, the U.S. added nearly 18 million acres of forest, an area roughly the size of South Carolina.
Due to historical surveying errors, the Four Corners Monument is approximately 1,800 feet east of its intended location.
In New Delhi, if a tree falls sick, an ambulance is dispatched to treat it. This came into effect in 2009 and takes four people to do the job.
Baltimore is the largest independent city in the U.S., with a population of over 550,000, and isn’t located within any county.
Owl cafés are popular in Japan, especially in Tokyo, where visitors can observe and hold owls in a controlled environment.
The Grand Canal in China, at a total length of approximately 1,104 miles (1,776 km), is recognized as the world’s longest artificial waterway.
The longest unbroken alliance in world history is between England and Portugal. It has lasted since 1386 and still stands today.
In 1856, British surveyors calculated that Mount Everest was 29,000 feet tall, but they reported it as 29,002 feet so that it wouldn’t look like a rough estimate.
The entire world population could fit in Texas, with each person having over 900 square feet, given Texas’s area of about 268,597 square miles.
The Venus flytrap is native to a small coastal region of North and South Carolina, centered around Wilmington, North Carolina.
In the 1st century AD, Scotland was among the few countries that the Roman Empire attempted, but failed, to conquer.
Since 1955, 50% of Niger’s population has consistently been under 16 years old. As of 2025, the population exceeds 28 million.
The 1831 London Bridge couldn’t handle the amount of traffic it was getting, so in 1968, it was sold, dismantled, and rebuilt in Arizona as a tourist attraction in Lake Havasu City.
The number of stars on the EU flag has nothing to do with the European Union or its member states. Instead, twelve stars were chosen because they represent unity and perfection.
Certain parts of the Mariana Trench, the deepest ocean trench on earth, have been found to be more polluted than some of China’s most polluted rivers.
Belarusians consume more potatoes per capita than anyone else in the world, with the average person in Belarus eating 341-375 pounds (155-170 kg) every year.
In Japan, some vending machines provide free drinking water and beverages during natural disasters, such as earthquakes or typhoons.
California was once a Russian colony. Until 1841, Russians controlled land as far south as Bodega Bay, just 50 miles north of San Francisco.
