The longest time between two twins being born is 87 days. The world's deepest postbox is in Susami Bay in Japan. 194 Funny and Interesting Facts. If you use these small jokes on your presentation materials (publication, website, powerpoint, seminars, lecture, tv show, etc), please have the courtesy to QUOTE THE SOURCE.It is not easy collecting all these.
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The world is a big, mysterious place, where sometimes facts defy logic. Here are some mind-bending geography facts that might surprise you. AFRICA IS IN A PRETTY CENTRAL LOCATION.Africa is the only continent that is in all four hemispheres: north, south, west, and east. It’s therefore also the only continent to have land on the prime meridian and the equator. ALASKA IS BOTH THE WESTERNMOST AND EASTERNMOST STATE.Alaska is the westernmost and northernmost state in the United States, which makes a lot of sense when you look at a map.
But more surprisingly, the state manages to be the easternmost state as well. Parts of Alaska are so far west that the state actually stretches into the eastern hemisphere.
Longitude lines converge at the top and bottom of the globe, so Pochoni Point, Alaska, has the easternmost longitude of any point in the country. THERE ARE THREE COUNTRIES THAT ARE COMPLETELY LANDLOCKED BY ANOTHER COUNTRY.Lesotho, San Marino, and Vatican City are the only countries to be surrounded by just one other country. Lesotho is landlocked within South Africa while San Marino and Vatican City are surrounded by Italy. RENO, NEVADA, IS WEST OF LOS ANGELES.Even when looking at a map, this fact is hard to wrap your head around. Despite being in Nevada (and nearly 300 miles from the ocean), Reno is roughly 86 miles farther west than the coastal city Los Angeles. MAINE ISN’T AS FAR NORTH AS YOU THOUGHT.Estcourt Station, Maine, is the northernmost community of New England. Despite being the highest town in the contiguous United States east of the Great Lakes (and therefore associated with frigid winters), it’s surprisingly farther south than other cities across the Atlantic.
London, for example, is nearly 300 miles north of the small Maine community, and Estcourt Station is also farther south than Paris, Amsterdam, and Brussels. CANADA HAS A LOT OF LAKES.Canada is the second largest country in the world, so it may not come as a surprise that it has a lot of lakes. But it might shock you that the country has more than half of all the natural lakes in the world. An impressive nine percent of the country is covered in fresh water. THE ENTIRETY OF THE WORLD’S POPULATION COULD EASILY FIT IN TEXAS.If the entire world were as densely populated as New York City, the whole population would only cover 250,404 square miles.
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That means the entire world could fit into the state of Texas. For comparison, if the world had the same population density as Houston, Texas, it would cover 1,769,085 square miles. Even then, being able to hypothetically fit over 7 billion people in an area smaller than half the United States is pretty impressive. AUSTRALIA MAY BE SURROUNDED BY WATER, BUT IT DOESN’T HAVE THE WORLD’S LONGEST COASTLINE.Being its own continent and completely surrounded by water, you’d think Australia would easily have the honor of being the country with the longest coastline.
However, that title goes to Canada. Canada has 152,100 miles of coastline, compared to Australia’s measly 16,000 miles. In fact, Australia ranks seventh on the list of the world’s longest coastlines, coming in behind Indonesia, Greenland, Russia, Philippines, and Japan. CHIMBORAZO IS CLOSER TO SPACE THAN MT.
EVEREST.Mount Everest is the tallest mountain on Earth, so it would stand to reason that the top of the mountain would be the highest point on Earth (and therefore closest to space). But when you remember that Earth is slightly oval-shaped, things get interesting. Our planet is slightly inflated around the equator, meaning countries like Ecuador and Kenya have a bit of an edge. With this added elevation, the top of Ecuador’s Mount Chimborazo (which is only 20,564 feet tall) is closest to the stars. ANTARCTICA IS HOME TO ALMOST ALL OF THE WORLD’S FRESH WATER.At 14 million square kilometers (about 5,400,000 square miles), the ice sheet in Antarctica is the largest solid ice mass on the planet.
The enormous frozen structure contains about 90 percent of all the fresh water on Earth. CHINA AND RUSSIA ARE BOTH BORDERED BY 14 COUNTRIES.Although China is just a little more than half the size of Russia—the largest country in the world—they share the same number of land neighbors. The 14 countries bordering China are: India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Russia, North Korea, Vietnam, Laos, Myanmar, Bhutan, and Nepal.Armed with this new knowledge, you just may be smart enough to take on the pint-sized geniuses featured on Child Genius: Battle of the Brightest (but probably not).
See where you stack up by tuning in to the premiere of Child Genius: Battle of the Brightest on Thursday, January 7 th at 8/7c on Lifetime.
YouTube is the world’s favorite video platform, but there’s a lot you probably don’t know about the site. With that in mind, here are some amazingly interesting YouTube facts for you to check out.
1. YouTube Began on Valentine’s Day
The YouTube.com domain was bought on Valentine’s Day, 2005. The first video was posted by co-founder Jawed Karim a little over two months later.
2. PayPal Funded YouTube’s Launch
The three YouTube founders—Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim—all worked for PayPal. They used their money from eBay’s buyout of PayPal to fund the site’s early development.
2. Google Owns YouTube
Google acquired YouTube for $1.65 billion in October 2006. Which was a lot of money at the time, but looks like a pittance now considering the value of YouTube.
3. Ads Appeared in 2007
Google is the largest ad company in the world, and it didn’t take long for it to start monetizing YouTube. The service’s first ad was broadcast in August 2007, just nine months after Google bought the site.
4. There Are Localized Versions of YouTube
In June 2007, YouTube started rolling out localized versions of its site. People in different places would get different recommendations and features, as well as a localized top-level domain (for example, .com, .co.uk, .fr, etc.).
The first 10 countries to get their own YouTube site were the U.S., U.K., Brazil, France, Ireland, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Poland, and Spain.
5. There Are 98 Versions of YouTube
Fast-forward to today, and the localization program has expanded dramatically. More than 98 countries now have their own version. The most recent went live in January 2019. They were Bolivia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, and Uruguay.
6. YouTube Has Been Censored Around the World
YouTube’s mission to get into households on every corner of the planet has not always been plain sailing. At various times, more than 25 countries have blocked access. All the usual suspects are there, as well as some surprises such as Germany, Finland, and Brazil.
7. YouTube Is Worth Billions
Today, YouTube’s annual revenue hovers around $15 billion. This has led Wall Street analysts to give the brand a value of more than $100 billion.
8. Americans Are Addicted to YouTube
In any given month, 80 percent of North American adults aged between 18 and 49 watch at least one video on YouTube.
9. YouTube Has More Reach Than Cable TV
In the United States, YouTube reaches more 18 to 49-year-olds than any broadcast or cable TV network.
10. YouTube Is Growing in Popularity
YouTube’s assault on traditional forms of television shows no signs of abating. The most recent data available shows that the time spent on YouTube has been enjoying double-digit percentage growth. At the same time, time spent watching TV is seeing a double-digit decline.
11. Ronaldinho Was First to 1 Million Views
For many soccer fans, Brazilian forward Ronaldinho is one of the greatest players to have ever played the game.
Thanks to his worldwide popularity, his tricks video (produced by Nike) was the first video to hit one million views in October 2005.
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Avril Lavigne’s chart-topping hit Girlfriend was the first song to break 100 million views after its release in 2008. There was some controversy around how the video amassed its views, with Lavigne’s PR company accused of gaming the system.
13. Gangnam Style Was First to 1 Billion Views
The first video to smash through the 1 billion barrier was PSY’s global megahit, Gangnam Style. The South Korean artist achieved superstardom on the back of its success, with the U.N. calling the singer a “force for world peace.” A bit of an exaggeration, we’re sure you’ll agree.
14. Spanish Language YouTube Is Growing
The first Spanish-language video on YouTube to amass more than 1 billion views was Enrique Iglesias’ reggaeton song, Bailando.
15. The Most Popular Non-Music Video Is in Russian
The only non-music video in the most watched YouTube videos of all time The 15 Most Viewed YouTube Videos EverThe most viewed YouTube video has over five billion views. Which of these most liked and watched YouTube videos have you seen? Read More is a Russian-language version of an episode of kids’ TV show, Masha and The Bear. It has been watched 3.4 billion times and counting.
16. 17 Videos Have Held the Number One Crown
In total, 17 different videos have held the record for being the most watched video on YouTube. The current holder is Luis Fonsi’s hit, Despacito. It took the record off Wiz Khalifa’s See You Again when it hit 2.9 billion views.
17. Justin Bieber’s Baby Isn’t the Most Hated Video
For a long time, the most disliked video on YouTube was the Justin Bieber song, Baby. It had received more than 10 million “thumbs down” in the nine years it had been live.
However, in December 2018 the record was smashed in spectacular fashion by YouTube Rewind 2018 Why Does Everyone Hate YouTube Rewind 2018?The YouTube Rewind 2018 video is universally disliked. So why does everyone hate YouTube Rewind 2018? Read More . In its first month of availability, it racked up an incredible 15 million downvotes.
18. HD Videos Went Live in 2009
We couldn’t start watching YouTube in high definition until the feature’s global rollout in November 2009.
19. YouTube Boasts 57,000 Years of Video Footage
The average video length on YouTube is four minutes and 20 seconds, and there are approximately 7 billion videos on the website in total.
We did some math (!) and can confirm that it would take around 30 trillion minutes to watch them all. Or, to put it another way, 58,000 years.
20. People Have Short Attention Spans
It’s safe to assume that the majority of those 7 billion videos are not worth watching. And it turns out that we give short shrift to videos that don’t immediately grab our attention. More than 20 percent of videos are switched off within the first 10 seconds of playback.
21. We All Watch Too Much YouTube
One person probably couldn’t get through all 58,000 years of YouTube. However, collectively, we make a darned good effort. We watch four billion hours of video every month—that’s 456,621 years worth!
22. YouTube Search Is Bigger Than Bing
YouTube is the second largest search engine in the world. It processes more queries than Bing and Yahoo combined.
Of course, it means Google also owns the world’s two most popular search engines. We’re not sure that level of centralization is a good thing.
23. A Decade of New Video Is Uploaded Every Day
YouTube sees 72 hours of newly uploaded video every minute. Over a 24-hour period, that’s more than a decade of new footage.
24. Tony Blair Is a YouTube Pioneer
Today, YouTube is well established as an essential way for politicians to get their message out to the public. That wasn’t always the case. In 2007, then-British Prime Minister Tony Blair became the first world leader to launch his own YouTube channel.
25. YouTube Isn’t the Number One Website
Despite all of these amazing statistics, YouTube is still only the second most visited site in the world (behind Google.com).
According to Alexa.com, Facebook, Baidu, and Wikipedia round out the rest of the top five.
YouTube’s Phenomenon Facts and Figures
So there you have it; that’s our list of the most interesting YouTube facts. The statistics are truly mind blowing, especially when YouTube didn’t even exist until relatively recently.
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