Useless Facts on Natural Phenomenas
Venezuela's Angel Falls are a mile high.
One can see the stars during the day from the bottom of a well.
The Niagara Falls have eroded their way 10 miles upstream since they were first formed some 10,000 years ago. The tremendous amount of water tends to eat through its limestone base relatively rapidly, and if erosion continues at its present rate, geologists estimate that the falls will disappear completely in 22,000 years.
When the volcano Krakatoa erupted in the Dutch East indies in 1883, the sound was heard in Bangkok, 3,000 miles away. At Batavia, 100 miles away, the sky was so darkened that people had to light their lamps during the day. The fine particles ejected by the blast covered almost every part of the world, and for the next two years a thin haze of these particles could be seen in the sky each night as far away as London.
Old Faithful in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, is not the highest natural geyser in the United States. Its neighbor, the Beehive Geyser, spouts well over 200 feet of water, compared with Old Faithful's 160. The Beehive, however, performs its majestic ejections at infrequent and unpredictable intervals.
There are more than 50,000 earthquakes throughout the world each year.
More than 71 million gallons of water pass over Victoria Falls in Africa every minute.