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1.The world's largest desert is the Sahara Desert, which covers an area of over 3.6 million square miles.
2. The world's oldest known living organism is a Great Basin bristlecone pine tree in California, which is over 5,000 years old.
3. The world's highest waterfall is Angel Falls in Venezuela, which drops 3,212 feet.
4. The world's smallest mammal in terms of length is the bumblebee bat, which is about 1.1 inches long.
5. The world's largest land animal is the African elephant, which can weigh up to 14,000 pounds.
6. The world's deepest ocean is the Pacific Ocean's Mariana Trench, which is over 36,000 feet deep.
7. The world's largest rodent is the capybara, which can weigh up to 140 pounds.
8. The world's smallest primate is the pygmy mouse lemur, which weighs less than 1 ounce.
9. The world's largest flower is the Rafflesia arnoldii, which can grow up to 3 feet in diameter.
10. The world's highest mountain is Mount Everest, which is 29,029 feet tall.
11.The world's largest glacier outside of Antarctica and Greenland is the Fedchenko Glacier in Tajikistan, which covers an area of over 430 square miles.
12. The world's largest waterfall system is the Iguazu Falls in South America, which consists of over 275 individual waterfalls.
13. The world's largest living lizard is the Komodo dragon, which can grow up to 10 feet long.
14. The world's fastest land animal is the cheetah, which can run up to speeds of 75 miles per hour.
15. The world's largest seed is the coconut.
16. The world's smallest flower is the watermeal, which measures less than 1 millimeter.
17. The world's largest fossil fuel reserves are located in Russia, Iran, and Qatar.
18. The world's largest hot desert is the Sahara Desert in Africa, which spans 11 countries.
19. The world's smallest continent is Australia.
20. The world's oldest known city is Jericho, located in the West Bank, and has been continuously inhabited for over 11,000 years.
21. The world's largest snake by length is the reticulated python, which can grow up to 30 feet long.
22. The world's largest lizard ever to have lived is the Megalania, which lived in Australia about 40,000 years ago and could grow up to 23 feet long.
23. The world's largest active volcano is Mauna Loa in Hawaii, which measures over 13,000 feet tall.
24. The world's largest active geyser is Steamboat Geyser in Yellowstone National Park, which can shoot water up to 300 feet in the air.
25.The world's largest known star is UY Scuti, which is over 1,700 times larger than the sun.
26. The world's largest diamond ever found is the Cullinan Diamond, which was discovered in South Africa in 1905 and weighed 3,106 carats.
27. The world's largest man-made structure is the Great Wall of China, which stretches over 13,000 miles.
28. The world's largest gold mine is located in Indonesia and is called the Grasberg mine.
29. The world's largest living organism in terms of area is a fungus called Armillaria ostoyae in Oregon, which covers over 2,200 acres.
30. The world's oldest known animal species is the
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31. The shortest war in history was between Britain and Zanzibar in 1896 and lasted just 38 minutes.
32. The world's oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9,000 years old.
33. The world's largest snowflake on record was 15 inches wide and 8 inches thick.
34. Cows have best friends and become stressed when they are separated.
35. Humans share 50% of their DNA with bananas.
36. The shortest complete sentence in the English language is "I am."
37. A group of flamingos is called a flamboyance.
38. The longest word in the English language is 189,819 letters long and is the name of a protein.
39. The world's largest living organism is a mushroom that covers 2,200 acres in Oregon.
40. The fear of long words is called hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.
41. A sneeze can travel up to 100 miles per hour.
42. A group of crows is called a murder.
43. The tallest building in the world is the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, which stands at 2,717 feet.
44.The world's largest tree by volume is the General Sherman Tree in California, which is over 52,000 cubic feet.
45. The shortest scheduled commercial flight in the world is between the Scottish islands of Westray and Papa Westray and takes just 2 minutes.
46. A cockroach can live for several weeks without its head.
47. The longest time between two twins being born is 87 days.
48. The world's largest diamond was the Cullinan diamond, which weighed over 3,100 carats.
49. The longest word in the English language that can be typed using only the left hand is "stewardesses."
50.There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than there are atoms in the known universe.
51 .The shortest war in American history was the Pig War, which lasted from 1859 to 1861.
52. The world's deepest postbox is in Susami Bay, Japan, and is 10 meters underwater.
53. The highest waterfall in the world is Angel Falls in Venezuela, which drops 3,212 feet.
54. A flamingo can only eat with its head upside down.
55. The largest egg ever laid by any animal was by a whale shark, which measured over 14 inches long and 6 inches in diameter.
56. The shortest verse in the Bible is John 11:35, which simply says, "Jesus wept."
57.The world's largest sandcastle was built in Germany in 2019 and measured over 55 feet tall.
58.The shortest commercially available flight in the world is between the Scottish islands of Westray and Papa Westray and takes just 47 seconds.
59. A group of rhinos is called a crash.
60. The world's largest pizza ever made was 131 feet in diameter and weighed over 50,000 pounds.
61.A person can live without food for about a month, but only about a week without water.
62. The world's largest desert is Antarctica, which receives very little precipitation each year.
63. The longest place name in the world is Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu, which is a hill in New Zealand.
64.The world's largest cave system is the Mammoth Cave in Kentucky, which has over 400 miles of explored passageways.
65. The longest recorded flight of a chicken was 13 seconds
66. The first computer mouse was made of wood and had only one button.
67. The world's largest bird is the ostrich, which can stand up to 9 feet tall.
68. The shortest commercially available flight in the United States is between San Francisco and Santa Rosa in California and takes just 16 minutes.
69. The world's largest freshwater lake by volume is Lake Baikal in Russia, which contains about 20% of the world's unfrozen freshwater.
70. The world's smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat, which weighs less than a penny.
71. The shortest scheduled international flight in the world is between St. Gallen-Altenrhein in Switzerland and Friedrichshafen in Germany and takes just 8 minutes.
72. The world's largest ocean wave ever recorded was a 1,720-foot wave that occurred in Lituya Bay, Alaska in 1958.
73. The world's tallest mammal is the giraffe, which can grow up to 18 feet tall.
74. The world's largest animal ever to have lived is the blue whale, which can grow up to 100 feet long and weigh up to 200 tons.
75. The smallest country in the world is Vatican City, which covers an area of just 0.17 square miles.
76. The world's largest country by land area is Russia, which covers an area of over 17 million square kilometers.
77. The shortest scheduled flight in the world is between the Scottish islands of Westray and Papa Westray and takes just 1.7 miles.
78.The world's largest iceberg ever recorded was about the size of Belgium and broke off from the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica in 2000.
79. The world's largest spider is the Goliath bird-eating spider, which can grow up to a foot in length.
80.The world's smallest bird is the bee hummingbird, which is about 2 inches long.
81. The world's largest fish is the whale shark, which can grow up to 40 feet long and weigh up to 20 tons.
82. The world's longest river is the Nile River, which is over 4,000 miles long.
83.The world's largest reptile is the saltwater crocodile, which can grow up to 23 feet long and weigh up to 2,000 pounds.
84. The world's smallest reptile is the dwarf chameleon, which is about an inch long.
85. The world's tallest building before the Burj Khalifa was the Taipei 101 in Taiwan, which stands at 1,667 feet.
86. The world's largest salt flat is the Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia, which covers an area of over 4,000 square miles.
87. The world's largest cave chamber is the Sarawak Chamber in Malaysia, which is over 2,000 feet long and 1,300 feet wide.
88. The world's smallest fish is the Paedocypris fish, which is less than a quarter of an inch long.
89. The world's oldest piece of chewing gum still retaining its original flavor is over 100 years old.
90. The world's largest hailstone on record was the size of a volleyball and fell in Vivian, South Dakota in 2010.
91. The world's largest stadium by seating capacity is the Rungrado 1st of May Stadium in North Korea, which can hold up to 150,000 people.
92.The shortest war in history was between Britain and Zanzibar in 1896 and lasted just 38 minutes.
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97. The shortest complete sentence in the English language is "I am."
98. A group of flamingos is called a flamboyance.
99.The longest word in the English language is 189,819 letters long and is the name of a protein.
100. The world's largest living organism is a mushroom that covers 2,200 acres in Oregon.
101. The fear of long words is called hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.
102. A sneeze can travel up to 100 miles per hour.
103. A group of crows is called a murder.
104. The tallest building in the world is the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, which stands at 2,717 feet.
105. The world's largest tree by volume is the General Sherman Tree in California, which is over 52,000 cubic feet.
106. The shortest scheduled commercial flight in the world is between the Scottish islands of Westray and Papa Westray and takes just 2 minutes.
107. The longest time between two twins being born is 87 days.
108.The world's largest diamond was the Cullinan diamond, which weighed over 3,100 carats.
109. The longest word in the English language that can be typed using only the left hand is "stewardesses."
120. There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than there are atoms in the known universe.
121.The shortest war in American history was the Pig War, which lasted from 1859 to 1861.
122.The world's deepest postbox is in Susami Bay, Japan, and is 10 meters underwater.
123. The highest waterfall in the world is Angel Falls in Venezuela, which drops 3,212 feet.
124 .The world's largest ocean is the Pacific Ocean, which covers an area of over 60 million square miles.
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