GEOGRAPHY FACTS!!!

Hi,

        Here are some interesting "GEOGRAPHY FACTS".. We should learn something new every day. Unfortunately, many of us are at that age where what we learn today, we forget tomorrow.

       Give it a shot anyway.
 
1. Amazon:

         The Amazon rainforest produces more than 20% the world's oxygen supply.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 ...

2. Canada:

         Canada has more lakes than the rest of the world combined. Canada is an Indian word meaning ' Big Village ...'

3. New York City:

        The term 'The Big Apple' was coined by touring jazz musicians of the 1930's who used the slang expression 'apple' for any town or city. Therefore, to play New York City is to play the big time - The Big Apple.

        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 .

4. Sahara Desert:

       In the Sahara Desert , there is a town named Tidikelt , Algeria , which did not receive a drop of rain for ten years.

       Technically though, the driest place on Earth is in the valleys of the Antarctic near Ross Island .. There has been no rainfall there for two million years.
 

5. Russia:

        The deepest hole ever drilled by man is the Kola Superdeep Borehole, in Russia . It reached a depth of 12,261 meters (about 40,226 feet or 7.62 miles). It was drilled for scientific research and gave up some unexpected discoveries, one of which was a huge deposit of hydrogen - so massive that the mud coming from the hole was "boiling", with it.