Middle of the Earth is the most visited tourist attraction in Ecuador due to the fact that it is located right on the Earth’s Equator. Or is it? Scientists have measured the Equator to be hundreds of feet away from the monument that supposedly marks the centre of the world. [...] No...
The Filipino language is a member of the Austronesia language family, which includes Malay, Māori and Hawaiian. It belongs to the subgroup of Malayo-Polynesian languages that are typically spoken by people in several island nations in the Pacific Ocean and Southeast Asia. 1. Since 1897, Tagalog...
Human skin is strong enough to keep the body from bursting. In fact, you can live up to two minutes in the space unprotected. But, eventually, of course, you’d die.Also, you won’t freeze immediately in space, as in the Hollywood movies, despite its average temperature being so low ...
But in fact, moonquakes, or "earthquakes" on the moon, keep things just a bit shaken up. Quakes on the moon are less common and less intense than those that shake Earth. The total seismic energy released by the moon is about 80 times less than that released by Earth, according to ...
We know more about the surface of the moon than the floor of the sea.[21] The names "Pacific," "Atlantic," and "Indian" were formally accepted worldwide in 1845.[26] While the words "ocean" and "sea" are used interchangeably, a sea is technically a smaller body of salt water that...
Nobody can tell.Maybe some of young students are just following the fashion.Then why is Meteor Garden stopped from being shown on TV in China? Well, some young people just could not agree.In fact, students are not too young to tell black from white.And they must be clear that every ...
Interesting fact: Cytoxan is a blister agent related to mustard gas. When filtered from the blood, it scars the bladder, which is why I wake, hour after hour, night in and night out, to pee. Can you see why it would be hard for me to tell wake from sleep, how the two could feel...
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The water at the San Alfonso del Mar pool is pumped from the Pacific Ocean, filtered, and treated(Quórum Comunicaciones / Creative Commons) Chile has the world’s largest outdoor swimming pool at the San Alfonso del Mar Resort. Set along the coastline, it is larger than 20 Olympic swimmin...
French Guiana is close to the equator, and because it is a neighboring region of Brazil, it looks extremely small. As a matter of fact, with a land area of 83,534 km² / 32,253 sq mi, the region is actually a bit larger than Scotland!