25 million trees are axed down every year to make 45 billion chopsticks in China.
Finland is known as ‘Land of Lakes’, since it has over 60,000 lakes.
(Siberia (Russia) occupied the biggest forest area of 17 million sq. Km. in the world.
New York (USA) has the longest tunnel of any kind in the world. The West Delaware water supply tunnel, which is 169 km long, links two of the city's major reservoirs.
With 5009 rooms, MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas (USA) is the largest hotel in the world.
Winston Churchill, the UK prime minister during World War 11, was born pre-mature in a ladies cloakroom in the ancestral castle of Blenheim (New Zealand), when his mother was attending a dance programme.
The USA can boast about the longest railway network in the world with 2, 34, 000 km followed by Russia (1, 54, 000 km), Canada (73,000 km),China (67,500 km), India (60,000 km) and Germany (37,500 km).
The American aircraft 'X-15'was the fastest aircraft ever made. It was a prototype, built in1967, flew at 7279KMPH or 'MACH 7', which is equivalent to seven times the speed of sound.
Rotterdam in Holland (Netherlands) is the world's largest manmade commercial port. Every year, around 300 million tonnes of goods are conveyed here, compared to 290 million tonnes in Singapore and180 million tonnes each in China and Japan. An annual average of 30, 000 ships berth at the Rotterdam harbour in a year.
The worlds highest railway station is at Galera, high up in the Andes (Peru). It is 4781 m above sea level.
