250 people have fallen off the Leaning Tower of Pisa.

The FLIPresearch vessel (Floating Instrument Platform) is the only ship in the world having the ability to flip from a horizontal position to a vertical position while at sea. The FLIP ship is designed to study wave height, acoustic signals, water temperature and density, and for the collection of meteorological data. FLIP is 108 meters long and weighs 700 long …

The total surface area of the Earth is 197 million square miles or 510 million square kilometers. The Earth is a water heavy planet, so, if you break its surface area into water and land segments, it would look like this: Land 149 million km Water 361 million km

“Bookkeeper” is the only word in English language with three consecutive Double letters.  It’s the only one in which removing the hyphen and merging the two words is a practical option.

Muslim World – Follow on Twitter Latest Islamic news of all over the World. Latest Muslim News Let us look at the benefits of males wearing a beard. Doctor Daniel G. Freeman, of University of Chicago, did research on the reproductive value of male beardedness. To test his theory Doctor Freedman and his graduate students asked a group of undergraduates …

When glass breaks, the cracks move at speeds of up to 3,000 miles per hour.

The word “Arctic” comes from the ancient Greek Arktikos, or “country of the great bear.” Though the Greeks had no knowledge of the polar bear, they named the region after the constellation Ursus Major, the Great Bear, found in the Northern Sky.

Louisiana loses about 30 square miles (78 square kilometers) of land each year to coastal erosion, hurricanes, other natural and human causes and a thing called subsidence, which means sinking.

Only 3% water of the earth is fresh, rest 97% salted. Of that 3%, over 2% is frozen in ice sheets and glaciers. Means less than 1% fresh water is found in lakes, rivers and underground.