Africa is the only continent in all four hemispheres
It straddles the equator and the prime meridian, so it has land in the northern, southern, eastern and western hemispheres.
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See all →Russia spans 11 time zones
From Kaliningrad in the west to Kamchatka in the east, a traveller crossing Russia would reset their watch eleven times.
Read the fact →Mount Everest is not the tallest mountain from base to peak
Mauna Kea in Hawaii rises about 10,200 m from the sea floor, more than Everest’s 8,849 m — most of Mauna Kea is simply under water.
Read the fact →Canada has more lakes than the rest of the world combined
Around 60 percent of all the world’s lakes are in Canada — well over two million of them.
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