These fun facts about Mars may surprise you. You’ll have to let me know which fun facts surprised you! A Martian day is called a sol. The southern hemisphere of Mars has lots of highland as well as lots of craters. Mars’s gravity is only about 38% as much as Earth’s. Mars is the second …
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What do you know about these rainbow fun facts? Did you know Earth is the only planet that experiences rainbows? The shape of a rainbow isn’t an arc, but instead a full circle. From the ground, we only see a semi-circle. You’ll sometimes see a double rainbow, also called a secondary rainbow. A double rainbow …
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The world is such a wide and fascinating place. You often hear people bitten by the travel bug bemoaning how they feel like they’ll never get to see all of it. If you’re one of these people, you can relax a little. Yes, you may never see all of the world, but that’s because you …
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These Chicago fun facts are interesting and full of history. What’s the coolest thing you know about Chicago? The Chicago River flows backwards (and sometimes it’s green.) The Chicago River was redirected into the Mississippi to prevent contamination of Lake Michigan, making it the only river in the world that flows backwards. Oh and the …
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You don’t have to have been to these amazing National Parks to know more about them. But you should try to go, of course, to see them in real life. Zion National Park Translated from Hebrew, the word “Zion” translates to a place of peace and relaxation. Voyageurs National Park This national park has had …
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Have you read 26 New Mexico Fun Facts You Don’t Already Know? Cause this is part two. The world record for the largest enchilada was created at the “Whole Enchilada Fiesta” in Las Cruces. New Mexico is the oldest capital city in the United States. Felix Baumgartner became the first human to break the sound …
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Do you know these New Mexico fun facts? Like the Gila National Forest in the state is the largest in the country. While New Mexico ranks first in alcohol related automobile crashes, it ranks 25th in crash fatalities. The Great Gold Rush may not have happened, had it not been for Jose Ortiz striking gold …
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Go big or go home, dictates the famous phrase. However, you don’t need to be the largest of something to make an impact. Sometimes, a much smaller construction will serve the same purpose. Or maybe the tiny thing is all you have space for or can afford. Even then, though, certain things people have built …
Looking at things from the ground level, we can only see so much about what’s around us. Thanks to map services, like Google Maps, it’s easy to get a bird’s eye view of your surroundings. Sometimes, however, that view can reveal some strange things. People scrolling around the world on Google Maps have spotted many …
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Imagine walking by a dark, foreboding forest late at night. Suddenly, in the blackness, you see something chilling. The light of a single, faint lantern floats in the distance. Yet you can’t see the lantern or its carrier. This spooky phenomenon, alongside other seemingly related hauntings, has taken place around a South Carolina town for …
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