The Andes mountain range along the western side of South America has fifty peaks, which are all over 6,000 m high. The highest of all, 6,960 m high Aconcagua, is in Argentina.
The tiny 20 km long Manhattan Island the heart of New York (USA) is now the forest of sky-scrapers, where once there were only trees. A Dutch settler bought this island in 1626 from some Native Americans for just US $24.
Yuma, Arizona (USA), boasts the most hours of sunshine. It remains sunny almost 95% of the year.
Russian Federation has the longest land borders of 20,000 km, and Canada/USA has the longest single land border of 8,893 km.
River Nile in Egypt is the longest river with 6,670 km, followed by Amazon in South America with 6440 km and Chang Jiang (Yangtze) in China, with 6380 km.
95% of all life on Earth is lived between 100 m below sea level and 3000 m above.
Lake Titicaca lies between Peru and Bolivia (South America). It is 3,811 m above sea level, and is the highest navigable lake in the world.
The muddiest river in the world is, Huang Ho, also known as Yellow River of China.
The car that attained the highest speed ever by a standard production is, McLaren F1. It reached the highest speed of 386.7 KMPH, driven by Andy Wallace (UK) at Wolfsburg, Germany, in 1998.
Queen Rania-AI-Abdullah of Jordan, born on August 1970, is currently the youngest queen in the world. She was just 28 years and 160 days when her husband, King Abdullah-bin-AI-Hussein crowned on February 1999. They got married on June 1993.
