Unlike AM and FM radio, shortwave radio stations can be heard thousands of miles away, even around the world under the right conditions. The most powerful stations may use up to 500,000 watts to broadcast their signal around the world.
Living more than 4500 years, the Bristlecone pine tree is the longest living tree on Earth. Scientists have used their rings to reconstruct climate data going back to the year 9,000 B.C.
The Imperial penguin in Antarctica breed in the harshest weather conditions on earth, enduring four months of -94 °Fahrenheit and 90 mile and hour winds.
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The first ship to send out an SOS signal is the Cunard liner Slavonia, having sent the signal on June 10th, 1909. It is a myth that the RMS Titanic was the first ship to use the SOS distress signal.
A city the size of New York consumes 1 billion U.S. gallons of water per day; enough to fill 1,480 Olympic sized swimming pools.
Australia is the smallest, and also the lowest continent on Earth. About 75% of it's land is unable to produce any kind of crop.
The biggest pillow fight ever recorded involved 3800 people and tens of thousands of pillows. It took place in Chicago at the 2013 Dada Life concert.
The state flag of Alaska was designed by a 13 year old boy named Benny Benson. His design was one of 700 submitted in a contest for the best flag.
Cloud leopards have spots on their fur that look like clouds.
Antarctica is the biggest desert on Earth. A desert is an area which receives less than 10 inches (250 millimeters) of rain per year, regardless of temperature.
A new species of frog dubbed the “chocolate frog” was discovered in New Guinea. Green frogs can sometimes be brown, but the chocolate frog is always cocoa colored.
The are over 450,000 species of beetles and weevils (Coleoptera) world wide.
The highest permanent settlement in the world is the city of La Rinconada, Peru located at 16,700 ft (5100 m) above sea level. It's inhabited by 50,000 brave souls who illegally mine the mountain for gold.
Water is the most dense at 4 degrees Celsius (39.2 Fahrenheit); one liter at this temperature weighs almost exactly one Kilogram.
A pair of Napoleon's socks was sold for more than $4000 at an auction in London.
The Burj Khalifa tower in Dubai is the tallest structure on our planet, measuring 2716 feet (828 meters). Alain Robert (a.k.a "The Spider Man") climbed the tower on the outside in six hours.
