So you think your pretty smart, huh ???
Some interesting stuff here:
Canada has more lakes than the rest of the world, combined. Canada is an Indian word meaning ' Big Village'.
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 is the only land on our planet that is not owned by any country.
Ninety percent of the world's ice covers Antarctica .
Istanbul, Turkey, is the only city in the world located on two continents.
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 .
There are no natural lakes in the state of Ohio , every one is man made.
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.
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