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  • There are over three trillion craters on the moon, with some being having a diameter over three feet.
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    (Added: Mon May 31 2004)
  • It takes approximately 12 years for Jupiter to orbit the sun.
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  • The planet Venus spins opposite to the other planets in the solar system.
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    (Added: Thu Sep 21 2006)
  • The word "America" comes from the European explorer "Amerigo Vespucci.
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  • The world's cleanest air is in Tasmania.
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    (Added: Mon May 31 2004)
  • The country of Fiji is made up of 332 islands.
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  • Corals take a long time to grow. Some corals only grow one centimeter in one year.
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    (Added: Mon May 31 2004)
  • A tree in metropolitan area will survive for approximately eight years.
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    (Added: Mon May 31 2004)
  • The only married couple to fly together in space were Jan Davis and Mark Lee, who flew aboard the Endeavor space shuttle from Sept 12-20, 1992.
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    (Added: Thu Oct 31 2002)
  • The largest volcano known is on Mars: Olympus Mons, 370 miles wide and 79,000 feet high, is almost three times higher than Mount Everest.
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    (Added: Sun Jan 22 2006)
  • According to the Gemological Institute of America, up until the 1730's, India was the only source for diamonds in the world.
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    (Added: Thu Oct 31 2002)
  • Angel Falls in Venezuela is the world's highest waterfall, at 979 meters. This waterfall is sixteen times the height of Niagara Falls.
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  • In the Sahara Desert, there is a town named Tidikelt, which did not receive a drop of rain for ten years.
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    (Added: Thu Oct 31 2002)
  • Indonesia consists only of islands - 13,667 altogether.
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    (Added: Thu Oct 31 2002)
  • Pakistan has the world's largest canal based irrigation system.
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    (Added: Thu Oct 31 2002)
  • Persia changed its name to Iran in 1935.
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    (Added: Thu Oct 31 2002)
  • Seven asteroids were especially named for the Challenger astronauts who were killed in the 1986 failed launch of the space shuttle.
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    (Added: Thu Oct 31 2002)
  • St. Paul, Minnesota was originally called Pigs Eye after a man named Pierre "Pig's Eye" Parrant who set up the first business there.
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    (Added: Thu Oct 31 2002)
  • Tasmania is said to have the cleanest air in the world.
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    (Added: Thu Oct 31 2002)
  • The Amazon rainforest produces more than 20% the world's oxygen supply.
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    (Added: Thu Sep 21 2006)
  • The Angel Falls in Venezuela were named after an American pilot, Jimmy Angel, whose plane got stuck on top of the mountain while searching for gold.
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    (Added: Thu Oct 31 2002)
 
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