Facts

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.

The world’s first University was established in Takshila, India in 700BC. More than 10,500 students from all over the world studied more than 60 subjects. The University of Nalanda built in the 4th century BC was one of the greatest achievements of ancient India in the field of education.

A huge underground river runs underneath the Nile, with six times more water than the river above.

If you ate too many carrots, you’d turn orange.

Sunlight can penetrate clean ocean water to a depth of 240 feet.

Over 4 million cars in Brazil are now running on gasohol instead of petrol. Gasohol is a fuel made from sugar cane.

Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never telephoned His wife or mother because they were both deaf.

Earth travels through space at 66,700 miles per hour.

The Persian Gulf is the warmest sea. In the summer its temperature reaches 35.6 degrees centigrade.