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772. Only five countries in Europe touch only one other: Portugal, Denmark, San Marino, Vatican City, and Monaco. (Source: N/A)

773. Paris was the first home to the Statue of Liberty. (Source: N/A)

774. Persia changed its name to Iran in 1935. (Source: N/A)

775. Pittsburgh was named for a British prime minister. (Source: N/A)

776. Portion of land in the US is owned by the government: 1/3 (Source: N/A)

777. Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States. (Source: N/A)

778. Reykjavik, the capital of Iceland, is heated by underground hot springs. (Source: N/A)

779. Rome is called "The Eternal City." (Source: N/A)

780. Scotland was once called Caledonia by the Romans. (Source: N/A)

781. Seoul, the South Korean capital, just means "the capital" in the Korean language. (Source: N/A)

782. Since the 1930’s the town of Corona, CA has buried – and lost – all 17 of its time capsules. (Source: N/A)

783. Soweto in South Africa was derived from SOuth WEst TOwnship. (Source: N/A)

784. Spain’s biggest source of income is tourism. (Source: N/A)

785. St. Paul, Minnesota was originally called Pigs Eye after a man who ran a saloon there. (Source: N/A)

786. Tasmania has the cleanest air in the inhabited world. (Source: N/A)

787. Thailand used to be called Siam. (Source: N/A)

788. The Amazon rainforest produces half the world's oxygen supply. (Source: N/A)

789. The average iceberg weighs 20,000,000 tons. (Source: N/A)

790. The average life-span for a person in Sierra Africa is 41 years. (Source: N/A)

791. The bat on the Bacardi symbol is there because the soil where the sugar cane grows is fertile from the excessive guano (bat droppings). (Source: N/A)

792. The Boston University Bridge is the only place in the world where a boat can sail under a train driving under a car driving under an airplane. (Source: N/A)

793. The channel between England and France grows 300mm each year. (Source: N/A)

794. The city of Dallas is known as "The Big D." (Source: N/A)

795. The city of Istanbul straddles two separate continents, Europe and Asia. (Source: N/A)

796. The city of Mt. Vernon, Washington, grows more tulips than the entire country of Holland. (Source: N/A)

797. The city of Paris is 49 degrees north latitude. (Source: N/A)

798. The country of Costa Rica does not have an army. (Source: N/A)

799. The country with the biggest percentage of female heads of household is Botswana. (Source: N/A)

800. The deadliest volcano eruption was that of Krakatau (Indonesia) in 1883. (Source: N/A)

801. The deepest canyon in low relief territory is Hell's Canyon, dividing Oregon and Idaho. It plunges 7,900 ft from the Devil Mountain down to the Snake River. United States The deepest canyon in the USA is Kings Canyon, East Fresno, CA, which runs through Sierra and Sequoia National Forests. The deepest point, that measures 8,200 ft, is in the Sierra National Park Forest section of the canyon. (Source: N/A)

802. The East Alligator River in Australia's Northern Territory, was misnamed. It contains crocodiles not alligators. (Source: N/A)

803. The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are useable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies. (Source: N/A)

804. The fastest moon in our solar system circles Jupiter once every seven hours - traveling at 70,400 miles per hour. (Source: N/A)

805. The first city in modern history to reach 1 million people was London in 181 (Source: N/A)

806. The German Bundestag, or Parliament, has 672 members and is the world's largest elected legislative body. (Source: N/A)

807. The Geysir ('gusher') near Mt Hekla in south-central Iceland, from which all others have been named, spurts on occasions to 180 ft, while the adjacent Strokkur, reactivated by drilling in 1963, spurts at 10-15 min intervals. (Source: N/A)

808. The Great Wall of China is the only man-made structure visible from space. (Source: N/A)

809. The greatest measured water discharge was an estimated 740,000-1,000,000 gallons by the Giant Geyser, also in Yellowstone National Park. However, this estimate made in the 1950s, was only a rough calculation. (Source: N/A)

810. The inhabitants of Monaco are known as 'Monegasques'. (Source: N/A)

811. The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 67 (Source: N/A)

812. The island of Nauru is composed mainly of bird droppings. (Source: N/A)

813. The Kingdom of Bhutan lies in the eastern Himalayas. (Source: N/A)

814. The largest city in Africa is Cairo in Egypt. (Source: N/A)

815. The largest country in Africa is the Sudan. (Source: N/A)

816. The largest landlocked body of water in the world is the Caspian sea. (Source: N/A)

817. The longest river in Asia is the Yangtze. (Source: N/A)

818. The Mediterranean Sea is the world's largest sea. (Source: N/A)

819. The most remote island in the world is Tristan da Cunha, which is above the subantarctic zone. (Source: N/A)

820. The national flower of Greenland is the Willow herb. (Source: N/A)

821. The nearest galaxy to our own is Andromeda. (Source: N/A)

822. The Nile river flows North. (Source: N/A)

823. The Nullarbor in Nullarbor Desert in Western Australia is a Latin name; Null=No, Arbor=Trees. (Source: N/A)

824. The number of births in India each year is greater than the entire population of Australia. (Source: N/A)

825. The official language of India is Hindi. (Source: N/A)

826. The official, neutral name of Switzerland, which has multiple official languages, is the Latin Confederation Helvetica, or the Helvetic Confederation, thus the CH on license plates, stickers and e-mail addresses. (Source: N/A)

827. The oldest exposed surface on Earth is New Zealand's south island. (Source: N/A)

828. The oldest public park in the U.S. is Boston Common. (Source: N/A)

829. The only married couple to fly together in space were Jan Davis and Mark Lee, who flew aboard the Endeavour space shuttle from Sept 12-20, 1992. (Source: NASA)

830. The Philippines consist of 7,100 islands. (Source: N/A)

831. The population of Mexico is over 90 million people. (Source: N/A)

832. The Red Cross is called the Red Crescent in Arab countries. (Source: N/A)

833. The roads on the island of Guam are made with coral. Guam has no sand. The sand on the beaches is actually ground coral. When concrete is mixed, the coral sand is used instead of importing regular sand from thousands of miles away. (Source: N/A)

834. The Sahara desert has the highest sand dunes. (Source: N/A)

835. The Sahara desert is expanding half a mile south every year. (Source: N/A)

836. The second largest continent is Africa. (Source: N/A)

837. The smallest 'country' in the world to have its own top-level domain name is Norfolk Island, off the coast of Australia. (Source: N/A)

838. The smallest country in Central America is El Salvador. (Source: N/A)

839. The smallest volcano in the world is Mount Taal. (Source: N/A)

840. The South Pole is colder than the North Pole. (Source: N/A)

841. The Sphinx sits on guard over the Great Pyramids. (Source: N/A)

842. The Suez Canal is 100.76 miles long. (Source: N/A)

843. The Sun has a diameter of 864,000 miles. (Source: N/A)

844. The Sun looks 1600 times fainter from Pluto than it does from the Earth. (Source: N/A)

845. The Sun travels at a speed of 155 miles per second, but it still takes 230 million years for it to complete a single revolution of the galaxy. (Source: N/A)

846. The surface speed record on the moon is 10.56 miles per hour. It was set in a lunar rover. (Source: N/A)

847. The tallest mountain in Australia is Mount Kosiusk, only 7,310 feet tall. (Source: N/A)

848. The tree dictated on the Lebanese flag is a Cedar. (Source: N/A)

849. The Tropic of Capricorn passes through Australia. (Source: N/A)

850. The volume of the Earth's moon is the same volume of the Pacific Ocean. (Source: N/A)

851. The Vosges Mountains are located in France. (Source: N/A)

852. The Waimangu (Maori 'black water') geyser, in New Zealand, erupted to a height in excess of 1,500 ft in 1904, but has not been active since it erupted violently at 6:20 A.M. on 1 April 1917 and killed four people. (Source: N/A)

853. The word "ozone" originates from the Greek word "ozo" which means "I smell." (Source: N/A)

854. The world's highest city is Lhasa, Tibet. (Source: N/A)

855. The world's warmest sea is the Red Sea. (Source: N/A)

856. There are 7 stars in the Big Dipper. (Source: N/A)

857. There are hundreds of gold mining labor camps in Arctic Siberia. An estimated 3 million Russians have died working in these camps. (Source: N/A)

858. There are more stars in the sky then grains of sand on earth. (Source: N/A)

859. There are small ice-free patches of land in Antarctica. (Source: N/A)

860. There is a city called Rome in every continent. (Source: N/A)

861. There is now an ATM at McMurdo Station in Antarctica, which has a winter population of 200. (Source: N/A)

862. Timbuktu is located in the country Mali. (Source: N/A)

863. Tongeren is the oldest town in Belgium. (Source: N/A)

864. Two objects have struck the earth with enough force to destroy a whole city. Each object, one in 1908 and again in 1947, struck regions of Siberia. Not one human being was hurt either time. (Source: N/A)

865. Up to three thousand species of trees have been cataloged in a square mile of the Amazon jungle. (Source: N/A)

866. Venice is known as "The Bride of the Sea." (Source: N/A)

867. We are in the middle of an ice age. Ice ages include both cold and warm periods; at the moment we are experiencing a relatively warm span of time known as an interglacial period. Geologists believe that the warmest part of this period occurred from 1890 through 1945 and that since 1945 things have slowly begun freezing up again. (Source: N/A)

868. Worldwide, about 40 square miles of land are transformed into desert each day. (Source: N/A)

869. Zaire is the world leader in cobalt mining, producing two-thirds of the world's cobalt supply. (Source: N/A)

870. Zanzibar is known as "Spice Island." (Source: N/A)

871. About one-tenth of the earth's surface is permanently covered with ice. (Source: N/A)

872. At the equator the Earth spins at about 1,000 miles per hour. (Source: N/A)

873. Earth was named after Terra, the Roman goddess of the land. (Source: N/A)

874. Earth's atmosphere is, proportionally, thinner than the skin of an apple. (Source: N/A)

875. The Earth flattens at the poles and bulges at the equator. (Source: N/A)

876. The Earth gets heavier each day by tons, as meteoric dust settles on it. (Source: N/A)

877. The Earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons. (Source: N/A)

878. The Earth, in its history, has been hit by at least one million meteors. (Source: N/A)

879. The night sky appears full of stars, but actually 3,000 stars are visible to the naked eye. (Source: N/A)

880. The pressure at the center of the Earth is 27,000 tons per square inch. (Source: N/A)

881. The surface area of the Earth is 197,000,000 square miles. (Source: N/A)

882. The world's worst earthquake occurred in 1556 in China killing approximately 830,000 people. (Source: N/A)

883. There are over 50,000 earthquakes every year. (Source: N/A)

884. Hawaii's Mount Waialeale is the wettest place in the world - it rains about ninety per cent of the time, about 480 inches per annum. (Source: N/A)

885. Hell's Gate, in Kenya, is a dramatic gorge curved through red, volcanic rock, which was once the outlet for a lake that embraced both Lake Naivasha and Nakuru. The gorge is beloved for rock climbers, while the whole area is renowned for it's bird life. There are a few mammals in the gorge itself. Various birds can be found here, such as Secretary bird, Anteater chat, Schalow's Wheatear and several species of larks. Of more interest are the breeding birds of the gorge. Large numbers of swifts breed here like Nyanza and little Swifts plus Ruppel's vultures. (Source: N/A)

886. High Point, North Carolina is known as "The Furniture Capital of the World" and boasts of a building that looks like a giant chest of drawers with argyle socks hanging out of one drawer. (Source: N/A)

887. Ho-Ho-Kus, a small town in New Jersey, is the only town in the United States Of America that has two dashes in it's name. (Source: N/A)

888. Honolulu boasts the only royal palace in the U.S. (Source: N/A)

889. Honolulu is closer to Japan than it is to New York City. (Source: N/A)

890. Hypnotism is banned by public schools in San Diego. (Source: N/A)

891. If Texas were a country it's GNP would be the fifth largest of any country on Earth. (Source: N/A)

892. If you could cut out the United States, its center of gravity would be Friend, Nebraska. (Source: N/A)

893. In 1513, Ponce DeLeon, was seeking the mythical "Fountain of Youth," and discovered Florida , claiming it for Spain. Later, Florida was sold to the United States in 1819. (Source: N/A)

894. In Kentucky, 50% of the people who get married for the first time are teenagers. (Source: N/A)

895. In Los Angeles, there are fewer people than there are automobiles. (Source: N/A)

896. In the Great Seal of the U.S., the eagle grasps 13 arrows and an olive branch. (Source: N/A)

897. In the United States there are more 2nd streets than there are 1st streets, and Main street is not the most common; Pine is. (Source: N/A)

898. In Vermont, the ratio of cows to people is 10:1 (Source: N/A)

899. Iowa has more independent telephone companies than any other state. (Source: N/A)

900. It snows more in the Grand Canyon than it does in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Source: N/A)

901. Lexington is the largest city in the state of Kentucky. (Source: N/A)

902. Michigan has more registered bowlers than any other state in the USA. (Source: N/A)

903. Michigan was the first state to plow its roads and first to adopt the yellow dividing line. (Source: N/A)

904. Montgomery is the birthplace of music great Nat King Cole, pop singers Clarence Carter and Toni Tenille, Metropolitan Opera singer Nell Rankin, and blues legend Willie Mae Big Mama Thornton. (Source: N/A)

905. New York City has the most skyscrapers than any other city in the world with 140. A skyscraper is any building that exceeds 152 metres in height. (Source: N/A)

906. New York City was briefly the U.S. capital from 1789 to 1790. (Source: N/A)

907. San Francisco has the two steepest streets in the U.S. (Source: N/A)

908. Texas is the only state that is allowed to fly its flag at the same height as the U.S. flag. (Source: N/A)

909. Texas was once a country. (Source: N/A)

910. The 8 stripes on the Hawaiian flag stand for the 8 main islands of Hawaii. (Source: N/A)

911. The dirt road that General Washington and his soldiers took to fight off General Clinton during the Battle of Monmouth was called the Burlington Path. (Source: N/A)

912. The exact geographic center of the United States is near Lebanon, Kansas. (Source: N/A)

913. The Library of Congress is the largest library in the world. (Source: N/A)

914. The longest U.S. highway is Route 20 which is over 3,200 miles. (Source: N/A)

915. The nickname of Florida is the "Sunshine State." (Source: N/A)

916. The only borough of New York City that isn't an island or part of an island is the Bronx. (Source: N/A)

917. The population of Texas is 18 million, not including the 16 million cattle. (Source: N/A)

918. The Saginaw River in Michigan is the shortest river in the world. (Source: N/A)

919. The state fruit of New York is the apple. (Source: N/A)

920. The state of Florida is bigger than England. (Source: N/A)

921. The U.S. paid $7.2 million for Alaska in 1867. (Source: N/A)

922. The USA bought Alaska from Russia for 2 cent an acre. (Source: N/A)

923. There is a town in California called Tarzana. It was named after Tarzan's creator, Edgar Rice Burroughs. (Source: N/A)

924. There is a town in the state of Tennesse that is named "Difficult." The residents could not agree on a name for the town. (Source: N/A)

925. There is city in Arizona called Naughty Girl Meadow. (Source: N/A)

926. There is currently a town in South Carolina named "96" although it is spelled out. It's zip code is 29666. (Source: N/A)

927. Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called Franklin. Today it is known as Tennessee. (Source: N/A)

928. Using satellite-surveying techniques, scientists have determined that Los Angeles, California is moving east. At a rate estimated to be about one-fifth on an inch per year, the city is moving closer to the San Gabriel Mountains. (Source: N/A)

929. West Virginia and Maryland have no natural lakes. (Source: N/A)

930. 203 million dollars is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S. (Source: N/A)

931. 26 billion dollars in ransom has been paid out in the U.S. in the past 20 years. (Source: N/A)

932. 277 medical institutions in the United States operate an organ transplant program. (Source: N/A)

933. 60% of all U.S. potato products originate in Idaho. (Source: N/A)

934. 7.5 tons of gold is used each year in the United States to make class rings. (Source: N/A)

935. 85,000,000 tons of paper are used each year in the U.S. (Source: N/A)

936. 97% of all paper money in the U.S. contain traces of cocaine. (Source: N/A)

937. According to the recruitment code of the U.S. Navy, anyone bearing an obscene and indecent tattoo will be rejected. (Source: N/A)

938. Akron, Ohio is known as the "Rubber Capital" of the world. (Source: N/A)

939. Alaska has 29 volcanoes. (Source: N/A)

940. Alaska is the only state without a state motto. (Source: N/A)

941. All of the cobble stones that used to line the streets in New York were originally weighting stones put in the hulls of Belgian ships to keep an even keel. (Source: N/A)

942. Almost 10% of Texas is covered by forest which includes four national and five state forests. (Source: N/A)

943. America once used a five-cent bill. (Source: N/A)

944. Americans pay over $30,500 federal, state and local taxes every second. (Source: N/A)

945. Baltimore, MD is the home to the first shopping center ever built. (Source: N/A)

946. Because of its size, the Pentagon operates much like a small city; it has it's own shopping mall, bank, power plant, water and sewage facilities, fire station, police force, fast food restaurants and a mayor. (Source: N/A)

947. Before 1863, postal service in the United States was free. (Source: N/A)

948. Chicago is closer to Moscow than to Rio de Janeiro. (Source: N/A)

949. Christmas became a national holiday in the U.S. in 1890. (Source: N/A)

950. City with the highest per capita viewership of television evangelists: Washington DC (Source: N/A)

951. Columbia University is the second largest land owner in New York City after the Catholic Church. (Source: N/A)

952. Don't know why, but people living in mountain states eat 30% more cookies than other people. (Source: N/A)

953. Every 45 seconds, a house catches fire in the U.S. (Source: N/A)