25 Facts About World That Will Blow Your Mind.

25 Facts About World That Will Blow Your Mind.

The world is filled with things that just can't be explained. There are things right in front of us which we  don't even  notice and then there are those  ew have absolutely no idea about. 

        

Fact that haven't  been hared by most of us  or haven't been  told to  most of us. Regardless' these 25 random facts are worth knowing. Some are so random  that we are never even would've thought they mattered.

• Iran has had 27 capitals, which is more than any other country in the world. Now the 28th one is Teheran.

• Ethiopia follows a calendar, that is seven years behind the Gregorian calendar (the most widely used civil calendar in the world). So to them it is year 2011. And they celebrate New Year in September.

• Canada has the most lakes on the planet. There are more lakes in Canada than in every other country in the world put together.

• The Netherlands male residents are the tallest people in the world. Their height on average is 1.838 m.

• The largest city by area in the world is Nagqu, in China. It is larger than the whole Sweden, and it’s just a city!

• New Zealand was the first nation to give women the right to vote in 1893 - a move that was followed two years later by its neighbor Australia.

• India & Fiji are the only countries, which have Hindi as an official language.

• Saudi Arabia is the only country in the world not to have any rivers.

• The China Highway 110 traffic jam lasted for more than 10 days. Cars moved at the speed of 0.6 miles per day.

• The elephant is the only mammal which cannot lift all four feet off the ground at the same time.

•  Guinness Book of World Records holds a world record as the best-selling copyrighted book of all time.

• Queen Elizabeth still keeps a diamond stolen from India in her crown and it's one of the largest diamonds in the world.

• There were 14 different species of Humans. 13 of them fully died out, expect us Homo sapiens .

• Finland has the largest number of islands in the world, more than 179 550.

• The Taj Mahal in India is made entirely out of marble.

• Monaco - the second smallest country in the world - is smaller than the Central Park in New York City (area of 2 square km).

• The Great Banyan Tree in India is the widest tree in the world covering over 14 500 m2 of land (about the size of a Manhattan city block) with 3600 aerial roots. It’s 250 years old and looks like like an entire forest.

• Libya has the highest percentage of desert in the world. With 99% of the land being desert, some regions don't get a single drop of rain for decades.

• There is a glacier called "Blood Falls" in Antarctica that regularly pours out red liquid, making it look like the ice is bleeding. (It's actually oxidized salty water.)

• Antarctica is the only continent without reptiles or snakes.

• Qatar is the world’s richest country according to GDP per capita. Their GNI (gross national income) per capita is $128 060.

• Every year, 8 million people see the Mona Lisa at the Musée du Louvre in Paris, France.

• Germany shares borders with 9 countries. Denmark in the north, Poland and the Czech Republic in the east, Switzerland and Austria in the south, France in the southwest and Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands in the west.

• The Sahara is larger than the Antarctica. Antarctica is a cold desert that covers an area of about 14,000,000 sq. km (5,400,000 sq. mi.), making it the largest desert in the world. The Sahara stretches 8,600,00 sq. km (3,300,000 sq. mi.) and is the largest hot desert in the world.

• Portugal is known to have the highest number of sunshine hours in Europe. With some parts having almost 300 sunny days a year, you can enjoy over 3000 sunshine hours per year.