Ohio, Rome and US oil

There are no natural lakes in the state of Ohio, all are man-made.


The driest place on Earth is in the valleys of the Antarctica near Ross Island.
There has been no rainfall there for two million years.


There are more Italians in New York City than in Rome, Italy.


There is a city called Rome on every continent.


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 the rivers in the United States.


Although covered with ice (all but 0.4% of it),
Antarctica is the driest place on the planet,
with an absolute humidity lower than the Gobi desert.


There are more Jews in New York city than in Tel Aviv, Israel.


The largest country in the world is the Russian Federation. It extends over 11 different time zones;

when the sun rises on Vladivostok in the morning,
It is sunset at Saint Petersburg.


The soil of the USA contains deep oil fields with huge reserves. While the exact quantities are not disclosed, many experts believe that there is enough quantities of oil that would suffice for the consumption of the USA for 100 years, conservatively.

The US, Antarctica and New York City

The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.


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 ice formation in Antarctica represents seventy percent of all the reserves of fresh water in the world.


The water of Angel Falls (the world's highest) in Venezuela
drops 3,212 feet (979 meters).
They are 15 times higher than Niagara Falls.


As strange as it sounds, Antarctica is essentially a desert;
the average yearly total precipitation is about two inches.


Canada is an Indian word meaning ' Big Village '.


There are more Irish in New York City than in Dublin, Ireland.


The deepest hole ever drilled by man is the Kola Super deep 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.


If New York city had the same population density as Alaska,
only 25 people would be living in it.

Rome, Siberia and Minnesota

The smallest island in the world having the status of “Country” is Pitcairn Polynesia, at just 1.75 square miles/4,53 square kilometers.


The first city to reach a population of 1 million people was Rome, Italy in 133 B.C.


Siberia’s famous forests: Taiga & Tundra represent more than 25% of the world's forests.


The smallest sovereign entity in the world
is the Sovereign Military Order of Malta (S.M.O.M).
It is located in the city of Rome, Italy, has an area of two
tennis courts and, as of 2001, has a population of 3 people.
It is a sovereign entity under international law, just as the Vatican is.


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


The word Spain literally means 'the land of rabbits'.


St. Paul, Minnesota, was originally called Pig's Eye
after a European man named Pierre 'Pig's Eye' Parrant
who lived and set up the first business there.


Ninety percent of the world's ice can be found in Antarctica .


The chance to find an unpaved road:
in the U.S.A. : 1%
in Sudan: 97%

Did you know!

More than half of the coastline of the entire United States is located in Alaska.

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

Antarctica is the only land on our planet that is not owned by any country.

Brazil got its name from the nut, not the other way around.

Canada has more lakes than all the rest of the countries in the world combined together.

Next to Warsaw, Chicago has the largest Polish population in the world.

Woodward Avenue in Detroit, Michigan, carries the designation M-1, so named because it was the first ever paved road in the world.

Istanbul, Turkey, is the only city in the world located on two continents.

Los Angeles' original name is: El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncula (The Town of Our Lady the Queen of the Angels of the (river) Porciuncula). It is now abbreviated to 3.63% of its size: L.A.

The term 'The Big Apple' was coined by touring jazz musicians of the 1930s 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.