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Over 300 people have died climbing Mount Everest since 1922. Most deaths occur because of avalanches, and not all bodies have been recovered.
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 largest canyon in the Solar System is Mars’ Valles Marineris, a 4.3-mile (7-kilometer) deep valley almost four times as deep as the Grand Canyon.
Baltimore is the largest independent city in the U.S., with a population of over 550,000, and isn’t located within any county.
In 2019, a state of emergency was declared in one of Russia’s Arctic regions due to a mass invasion of polar bears.
The kookaburra is native to Australia and New Guinea; its calls are often used as sound effects in movies for jungles in Africa or South America.
The Scottish-American Soldiers Monument in Edinburgh is the only monument to the American Civil War outside the United States.
New York City, home to more than 628,000 Chinese residents, has the largest Chinese population of any city outside of Asia.
The longest unbroken alliance in world history is between England and Portugal. It has lasted since 1386 and still stands today.
The Danish flag, known as the “Dannebrog,” is the oldest continuously used national flag, with historical references dating back to at least the 1370s.
Hawaii’s Mauna Kea is nearly 2,000 meters taller than Mount Everest, but it’s not considered the highest mountain because its base starts below sea level.
In the 1st century AD, Scotland was among the few countries that the Roman Empire attempted, but failed, to conquer.
Sudan has more pyramids than any country, with around 255. They outnumber Egyptian pyramids by nearly twice the amount.
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.
All the paint on the Eiffel Tower weighs the same as ten elephants. It gets repainted every seven years without closing to the public.
China has a 3,000-mile network of underground tunnels, often referred to as the “Underground Great Wall.” These tunnels are used to store and transport ballistic missiles.
There is an unknown number of Nile crocodiles in Florida. They are the second-largest crocodile and are more dangerous than Florida’s native crocodiles and alligators.
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.
Soviet Russia needed lighthouses on its uninhabited northern coast, so they built automated lighthouses powered by small nuclear reactors.
The world’s most remote ATMs are operated by Wells Fargo in Antarctica, serving over 1,000 residents at the U.S. McMurdo Station.
The national animal of Scotland is the unicorn, which has been featured in Scottish heraldry since the 12th century.
Around 10,000 underground nuclear bunkers were built during the Cold War in Beijing. They were later sold as real estate and are currently inhabited by over a million people.
