Fascinating Facts and Trivia

Though Mt. Everest lays claim to the highest altitude, due to the bulge of the Earth at the equator, Mount Chimborazo in Ecuador is the closest to the moon.

Glaciers store between 70% and 80% of all the freshwater on the planet.

In 1811 and 1812, three earthquakes measuring around 8 on the richter scale, caused the Mississippi River to flow backwards.

There are no rivers In Saudi Arabia.

The Richter Scale for earthquakes is a logarithmic scale.
So 8 is really bad and happens near to where there's a fault in the Earth's crust but 4 that we might get in say Bradford or Edenbridge or somewhere isn't half as bad.
Which is just as well.

Plus seismographs are really sensitive devices that record earthquakes and during the war recorded the explosions of bombs all the way away in Germany. So they know when the bombs exploded when they bombed the Mohne Dam for instance because the explosions were recorded back in the UK.

Strawberries can also be white or yellow, and some can even taste like pineapples!

Banks have therapists known as ‘wealth psychologist’ who help ultra-rich clients, who are unable to mentally cope with their immense wealth.

For every child born in Wales since April 2014, the Welsh Government have donated a fruit tree to Ugandan families, to celebrate the birth or adoption of every child.

Iguanas have three eyes.

Two normal eyes and a third eye on top of their head that only perceives brightness.

Due to the humid and moist conditions that a sloth lives in, moss and other similar plants will sometimes grow in its hair.

Sloth’s also have very bad eyesight.

These two factors can sometimes culminate in a sloth grabbing its own arm, whilst thinking it is a branch, and falling to its death!