[Travel fact 1] The shortest passenger flight is between Westray and Papa Westray in Scotland's Orkney Islands, which are separated by just 1.7 miles of land and sea. The flight lasts just 47 seconds.
[Travel fact 2] If you get involuntarily bumped from a flight, you can get paid out 200-400% of the flight's cost back depending on how late you get to your destination. If this happens to you they will offer you a bunch of vouchers, but be persistent and they will pay you out. If the airline arranges substitute transportation that is scheduled to arrive at your destination between one and two hours after your original arrival time (between one and four hours on international flights), the airline must pay you an amount equal to 200% of your one-way fare to your final destination that day, with a $650 maximum. If the substitute transportation is scheduled to get you to your destination more than two hours later (four hours internationally), or if the airline does not make any substitute travel arrangements for you, the compensation doubles (400% of your one-way fare, $1300 maximum).
[Travel fact 3] A woman named Sarah Marquis walked 10,000 miles by herself through Asia and Australia. She only carried underwear, a pocketknife, antibiotics, tea-tree oil, a solar-powered charger, a beacon, a BlackBerry, a satellite phone, Crocs, a compass, an emergency stash of amphetamines, and pink pajamas with her.
[Travel fact 4] The word "siderodromophobia" is the fear of trains, railroads, or traveling on trains. "Sidero" is Greek for "iron" or "things made of iron," and "dromo" is Greek for "race course."
[Travel fact 5] Ramree Island located right off the coast of Myanmar is famous for a strange and deadly incident that followed a battle between the British and the Japanese during World War II. When the British drove Japanese from their camps and into the mangroves, the scattered rifle shots in the pitch black swamp punctured by the screams of men crushed in the jaws of saltwater crocodiles. Though locals and historians dispute the idea of a massive massacre by the saltwater crocodiles, it is true that somewhere between 500 and 1,000 soldiers entered the marshes and only around 20 were found alive. The Guinness Book of World Records has listed it as the “worst crocodile disaster in the world” and “most number of fatalities in a crocodile attack.”
[Travel fact 6] The Amazon river was named by Spanish conquistador Francisco de Orellana. After skirmishes with a native tribe whose women fought alongside the men, Orellana derived the name from the Amazons described in Greek myth.
[Travel fact 7] Mount Kosciuszko was thought to be the highest mountain in Australia until Mount Townsend was found to be slightly taller. Rather than re-educating the public that Townsend was the new highest mountain, the New South Wales Lands Department simply switched their names.
[Travel fact 8] “The Villages” is an over-55 community in Florida that has the highest consumption of draft beer and STD rate in the state.
[Travel fact 9] The three Olympic-class ocean liners were each involved in accidents: RMS Olympic was damaged in a collision with HMS Hawke, RMS Titanic struck an iceberg and sank, and HMHS Britannic struck an underwater mine during World War I and sank. One woman named Violet Jessop survived all three accidents.
[Travel fact 10] A woman named Mary Johnston in Scotland has inexplicably become the 87th best tourist attraction in the city on TripAdvisor after somehow signing herself up as a destination for visitors rather than a user on the site.
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