Did You Know The 25 -Est In The World: #25 The Biggest Enclosed Body Of Water

The Caspian Sea is the biggest enclosed body of water on Earth, having an even larger area than that of the American Great Lakes or that of Lake Victoria in East Africa. It is approximately 1,030 km long and its width ranges from 435 km to a minimum of 196 km. It has no connection to the world’s oceans and its surface level at the moment is around –26.5 m below MSL. At this level, its total coastline is some 7,000 km in length and its surface area is 386,400 km2. The water volume of the lake is about 78,700 km³.

Read the full story: Caspian Environment

Did You Know The 25 -Est In The World: #24 The Largest Delta

The Ganges Delta is by far the Largest Delta in the World. Situated in the South Asia region, consisting of the Bangladesh and West Bengal, India. It is also given a nickname, The Green Delta, for being one of the most fertilized land. It covers an area more than 105,000 km². Although it lies within border of Bangladesh and India, rivers from Bhutan, China and Nepal also drain into it from the north.

Read further: Wikipedia

Did You Know The 25 -Est In The World: #23 The Longest River

The Longest river on earth is The Nile. The distance between White Nile source to Mouth is 6,695 km. Two main sources according to Micheal Barron is the white Nile and the Blue Nile from Lake Victoria, Uganda and Lake Tana Ethiopia respectively.

The Nile and its tributaries flow though nine countries. The White Nile flows though Uganda, Sudan, and Egypt. The Blue Nile starts in Ethiopia. Zaire, Kenya, Tanzanian, Rwanda, and Burundi all have tributaries, which flow into the Nile or into lake Victoria Nyanes. The major cities that are located on the edge of the Nile and White Nile are: Cairo, Gondokoro, Khartoum, Aswan, Thebes/Luxor, Karnak, and the town of Alexandria lies near the Rozeta branch.

Read more: The Nile River

Did You Know The 25 -Est In The World: #22 The Deepest Part Of Ocean

The Mariana Trench is the deepest known submarine trench located at the Western North Pacific Ocean. The maximum depth of 11 km of the trench also made it the deepest location on the surface of Earth's crust at the Southeast side of the Mariana Islands, near Guam.

Further reading: Wikipedia or UND

Did You Know The 25 -Est In The World: #21 The Longest Coastline

Canada has the world's longest coastline including the coastline of the country's islands. Total length is 243,792 km and is surrounded by 3 Oceans; Pacific, Atlantic and Arctic.

Read fact sheet: Saskschools or About.com

Did You Know The 25 -Est In The World: #20 The Largest Basin

The Congo Basin lies in the heart of Africa is the world's largest basin. It is one of the most important natural wildness left on our planet. The whole area covered more than 3,680,000 km², covering three territories; Democratic Republic of The Congo, Central African Republic and Republic of Congo.

Source: WWF and Wikipedia

Did You Know The 25 -Est In The World: #19 The Longest Mountain Range

The Andes is the Word's longest mountain range. Over 7,000 km long, 500 km at widest part and an average height of 4,000 m, it is about the width of Himalaya and almost twice as long although she doesn't beat the hight of the Himalaya.

The whole Andean range spread across 7 countries in the region including Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela. The Aconcagua is the highest peak of Andes. The summit of Mount Chimborazo in the Ecuadorean Andes is the point on the Earth's surface most distant from its center, because of the equatorial bulge.

Did You Know The 25 -Est In The World: #18 The Lowest Point on Earth

The Earth's lowest point is situated between Israel and Jordan, a salt lake known as The Dead Sea. At 420 m (-420 m) below sea level, its shore is actually the lowest point on dry land.

The Dead Sea is 67 km long and 18 km at its widest point. Salinity is 8.6 times more saline than seawater (normally 35 to 37 ppt) making it possible for anyone to literally float on it. Cool.

FYI, the lowest point in North America is the Badwater Basin, 86 m below sea level, Dead Valley California.

Looking at the sunset, I'd say it's a place for a memorable vacation.

Did You Know The 25 -Est In The World: #17 The Greatest Wave

The greatest wave on earth lies in Cape of Good Hope. Situated at the Southest point of Africa and the dividing point between The Atlantic and The Indian Ocean, there are lots of storms and big, rough waves. In 1939, the whole southermost portion of Cape Peninsular was declared National Park; A wild, rugged, scenic and generally unspoiled national park.

Read the history of Cape of Good Hope: Wikipedia

Monster Spider Web Sprawling 200 yard Trail

The monster web was found in the North Texas Park. It was white at first but not long after, millions of mosquitoes caught in those web that turn the web brown. The massive mosquito trap has attracted visitors to the park while others kept away from it.

Some entomologists believe that it was the work of the social cobweb spiders but others think it was unusual. Professor John Jackman Of Texas A&M University said that he cannot be certain until samples were sent to them.

Park rangers expect the web to last till fall as the spider will start dying off.

Original article and picture from: CNN

Natural History Museum at Tring Received £87,000 Government Grants For 88 Stuffed Dogs!

The spoke person of the museum at Hertfordshire mentioned that the grant would be spent on improving the display alongside with other stuffed amphibians reptiles, flightless birds and marsupials.

Those stuffed dogs were said to illustrate the impact of selective breeding mainly date from the early 20th century.

The body of Mick the Miller, legendary racing greyhound who won 46/61 races during his career between 1928 - 1931, is also one of the collection.

Now you know why the museum's given so much money? After Helmsley case, I keep having this feeling that sometimes it is better to be a dog than human. First Trouble inherited £12 million that it does know how to spend and now, dead dogs get £ 87,000 grant. I don't know, why not you tell me.

Read the full story and more pictures of the dogs: Daily Mail

Bored Of The Ordinary Dinner? Try This

If you are making omelet every morning, try to break just the top part of the egg and keep the shell.

Cut the ingredients you like into small cubes and set a side. You can either mix them up or put in layer by layer.

Fill quarter of the shell with jelly and fill in your mixed ingredients. If you don't have so many egg shell, you can keep the egg white and fill it in, just that it won't be as pretty as those serving on the plate below. Enjoy.

Brandon Mcconnell: One Minute Painting

Can you paint anything in one minute? This guy is painting an outer space picture or something. I really don't know how he can think of a way to do it this way but I must say that he's really good. Amazing!

Giant Tomato Fight Kick Off In Bunol, Spain

In the small Spanish town named Bunol, the annual food fight has brought tens of thousands of "warrier" hurled tons of ripe tomatoes at each other. The "war" started precisely at 0900 GMT where town municipal truck unloaded 117 tons of ripe tomatoes on the main square of Bunol. The annual warfare lasted one hour. Wish I was there. ^^

Read more: IHT

Malaysia's King Tooth Hauled 297.1mt Train over 2.8 m

A vegetarian, partially attributes his strengths to an Indian form of meditation, Rathakrishnan Velu pulls an almost 300 metric ton seven-coach train over 2.8m with his TEETH. It is a attempt to set name in the Guinness World Records. Kid, don't try this at home.

I'm just wondering what his teeth made of? Iron? Now I believe that a man's inner strength is unbelievably strong. It's just that we haven found the right way to fully utilize it, don't you think so? Amazing, Malaysia Boleh!

Pictures from: Daily Mail

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Leona Helmsley: My Will, My Dog

Billionaire hotelier Helmsley died on 21 August 2007, aged 87. She has left her beloved pet dog Trouble USD 12 million and her grandchildren nothing.

I think she's not called the queen of mean by the media for no reason. The best part is her quote: "only little people pay taxes". She deserves a place here.

Read more: Daily Mail or NY Times

Did You Know The 25 -Est In The World: #16 The Strongest Wind

The place of greatest wind is the Antarctica. Average days with 8 grad wind is 300 days and average annual wind speed is 19.4 mi/sec. The greatest wind speed once recorded was 100mi/sec, equivalence to 4 times 12 grad typhoon.

Picture from: Antarctica

Picture from: Matthew Gibbons

Picture from: Lateshift Musing

Did You Know The 25 -Est In The World: #15 The Place Of Highest Annual Precipitation

The Wettest place on earth is situated on one of Hawaiian Island called Mt. Wai'ale'ale, Kaua'i.

Picture from: Pacific Island Reservations

The weather station there is 1,569 m high and records an average 11,684 mm to 13,000 mm rainfall per annum. Other wet places includes Mt. Tutenendo and Lloro, Columbia; Cherrapunji and Mawsynram, India. All exceeding 10,000 mm annual rainfall.

Picture from: About.com


Picture from: dkimages

Read more: Dan Suri or The Nature Conservancy