Top 10 World facts: PART 1

Category 1: Nature

1. The deepest place on Earth is the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean. It’s 36,201 feet (11,034m) deep. That’s almost seven miles!

2. The longest river in the world is the River Nile, clocking 6,853km in length. Its water resources are shared by 11 different countries, too.

3. Lobsters are not ‘biologically immortal’, but they do produce an enzyme that repairs their cells and helps their DNA to replicate indefinitely. That’s where the myth comes from.

4. The deepest freshwater lake in the world is Lake Baikal, located in Siberia. It plunges to a whopping depth of 5,315 feet (1,620m). Woah!

5. Pineapples take two years to grow.

6. Acacia trees in Africa communicate with each other. They emit gasses to alert other trees to produce the toxin tannin, which protects them from hungry animals.

7. Armadillos are bulletproof. (This is NOT an invitation to test the fact.)

8. Niagara Falls never freezes.

9. Each limestone/granite block that makes up the Great Pyramid of Giza weighs 2.5 tons. And there are 2.3 million of them. Yes, you read that correctly.

10. It would take you approximately 18 months to walk all the way along The Great Wall of China. (It’s over 5,000 miles long).