[World fact 1] Spite Houses are impractical and often uninhabited buildings that people construct for the sole purpose of irritating their neighbors. For Example, in 1882, a house, 5 feet wide, 4 stories high and 104 feet in length was erected on Lexington Ave, New York City to “spite” the neighbor, and block his views.
[World fact 2] 70,000 years ago, a nomadic star came within 1 light-year of the Sun. Research suggests this close pass by Scholz’s star sent dozens of comets and asteroids tumbling out of the solar system.
[World fact 3] “The Villages” is an over-55 community in Florida that has the highest consumption of draft beer and STD rate in the state.
[World fact 4] The Chicxulub Impact, the asteroid that killed off the dinosaurs, created a mega-tsunami that was over 330 feet tall. If the impact had struck the deep ocean rather than the shallow seas, the wave would have peaked at 2.9 miles.
[World fact 5] Newly discovered fossils show that moths and butterflies have been on the planet for at least 200 million years whereas flowering plants came along only around 130 million years ago, which means that the butterflies survived without flowers for 70 million years.
[World fact 6] Anchorage, Alaska, is almost equidistant from New York City, Tokyo, and Frankfurt, Germany (via the polar route), and lies within 10 hours by air of nearly 90% of the industrialized world.
[World fact 7] Like Smallpox, Polio is on its way out with only 22 cases worldwide in 2017.
[World fact 8] There is an octopus species (Graneledone boreopacifica) that cares for her eggs for 53 months, apparently not eating during this time, then dies. This brooding period is the longest known for any animal.
[World fact 9] Most of the internet data is not transferred across continents by satellites. Instead, 97% of intercontinental data is transferred through hundreds of thousands of miles of cables at the bottom of the ocean.
[World fact 10] The Pillars of Creation, a nebula 7,000 light years away, was destroyed by supernova 6,000 years ago. In a thousand years, we will see it destroyed as it takes 7,000 years for the light to reach Earth.
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This world facts generator can generate some interesting world facts for free. These world facts can help you learn some new knowledge and know more about world.
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