- The Apollo 17 crew were the last men on the moon.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - The bark of an older redwood tree is fireproof. Also the redwoods extremely high water content reduces the tree's susceptibility to fire.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - The deepest point on the Earth's surface is in the Pacific Ocean located in the Marianas trench. This point is called the "Challenger Deep" and is 35,818 feet deep.
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(Added: Sun Jan 22 2006) - The driest place on earth is Calama, in the Atacama Desert in Chile.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - The Rainbow Bridge is the world's largest natural bridge. It is located at the base of Navajo Mountain, Utah and is as long as a football field.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - The sun is approximately 75% hydrogen, 25% helium by mass.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - The tallest tree recorded is located in Humboldt Redwoods State Park, California. It is a coast redwood and has been measured at 117 metres high.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - The Tonle Sap River in Cambodia flows north for almost half the year and then south for the rest of the year.
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(Added: Thu Sep 21 2006) - The world's worst earthquake occurred in the Eastern Mediterranean in July 1201, killing over one million people that were predominately in Egypt and Syria.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - There are over one hundred billion galaxies with each galaxy having billions of stars.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - When the volcano Krakatoa off the Java islands exploded in 1883, it was so loud that it woke some people up in South Australia.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - In 1958, the United States Coast Guard off western Greenland measured the tallest known iceberg at five hundred and fifty feet.
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(Added: Tue Sep 19 2006) - The Sea of Tranquility on the moon is deeper than the highest mountain on Earth.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - 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.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - In the early 1700's, Siberia became a place of exile for many criminals and political extremists.
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(Added: Sun Jan 22 2006) - In the United States, about 33% of land is covered by forests.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - When explorers first arrived in Venezuela, they were reminded of Venice. They named the country "Little Venice", which translated into Spanish is Venezuela.
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(Added: Sun Jan 22 2006) - The city of Tokyo was originally called Edo.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - Fine-grained volcanic ash can be found as an ingredient in some toothpaste.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - There is a place called Hell, Michigan. It is about 50 miles from Detroit, Michigan.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - The word Thailand means "land of the free."
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