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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See all →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.
Read the fact →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 →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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