India’s Mawsynram is the wettest place on Earth
This village in Meghalaya receives about 11,870 mm of rain a year on average — more than ten times what London gets.
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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 →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.
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.
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