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661/ The Hawaiin Islands are
the projecting tops of the biggest mountain range in the world.
Mauna Kea, on the island of Hawaii, is the largest mountain
on Earth - though partially submerged, it is 4,000 feet taller
than Mount Everest.
662/ The islands of Bermuda
have no rivers or lakes. The inhabitants must use rain for
water.
663/ The Italian city of Verona,
where Shakespeare's lovers Romeo and Juliet lived, receives
about 1,000 letters addressed to Juliet every Valentines day.
664/ The King Ranch in Texas
is bigger than the state of Rhode Island. It comprises 1.25
million acres and was the first ranch in the world to be completely
fenced in.
665/ The land area of Greece
is slightly smaller than Alabama.
666/ In 1507, the first globular
map was published showing the Western Hemisphere. It was printed
at St. Die in the Vosges Mountains of Alsac, and it was the
first map to use the term "America".
667/ In Iceland, Domino's
Pizza has a reindeer sausage pie on its menu.
668/ In the United States,
the Ku klux Klan has applied to sponsor more than 16 miles
of roadway under state adopt-a-highway programs.
669/ In the world's oceans,
there are: 58 species of sea grasses; less than 1,000 species
of cephalopods (squids, octopi, and pearly nautiluses); 1,000
species of sea anemones; 1,500 species of brown algae; 7,000
species of echinoderms (starfishes, sea urchins, sea cucumbers,
and sea lilies); 13,000 species of fishes and 50,000 species
of mollusks.
670/ India and China account
for more than half of the world's total production of peanuts.
The United States grows about ten percent of the world's peanut
crop, mainly in such Southern States as Alabama, Florida,
Georgia and South Carolina.
671/ The land owned by the
US Federal government is about 651 million acres - 29 percent
of the countrys total.
672/ The largest bird colony
in the world is located on the islands off the coast of Peru.
Ten million Peruvian boobies and cormorants reside there.
Their diet - anchovies - produces the worlds finest fertilizer,
guano. Because of the value of their droppings, the birds
were placed under strict protection by the Incas.
673/ The nation of Mozambique
has an AK47 assault rifle on its flag.
674/ The Netherlands are the
lowest country in the world. It is estimated that 40 percent
of the land is below sea level.
675/ Jefferson County, Kentucky
announced in 1996 that it was going to reduce its pauper burial
system to restrain the tide of people who came to the county
just to die. According to officials, the cost per pauper burial
was almost $700.
676/ La Paz, the capital city
of Bolivia, is the highest capital in the world. Ski resorts
there operate only on weekends during the South American Summer
(November to March). At an elevation of over 17,000 feet it
is too cold to operate during the South American winter.
677/ Lebanon is the only country
in the Middle East that does not have a desert.
678/ The official state dessert
of Massachusetts is Boston Cream Pie.
679/ The Old Chinese Telephone
Exchange in San Francisco was completed in 1909. Operators
were required to be proficient in English and five Chinese
dialects. They were also obliged to learn every phone number
of every one of the company's 2,400 clients because the Chinese
believed it was rude to refer to a person as a number.
680/ The peacock is the national
bird of India.
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