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10 Fun Facts About Everything In The World

1. The Kawah Ijen Volcano



There’s volcano in Indonesia that spews blue lava.

The Kawah Ijen Volcano, the largest sulfuric acid crater lake in the world, spews blue lava.It is because it has a pH balance of 0.5 due to sulfuric acid.



2. Hippopotamus milk is pink.
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It gives the hippopotamuses' sweat a red coloration, commonly believed to be blood (it's not). The acids act as a sunscreen and antimicrobial. The pink coloration is the mixture of these pigmented excretions and the white mammalian milk.




3.Nepal is the only country that doesn’t have a rectangular flag.Related image

Flag of Nepal. The national flag of Nepal  is the world's only non-quadrilateral national flag. The flag is a simplified combination of two single pennons, the vexillological word for a pennant. Its crimson red is the colour of the rhododendron, the country's national flower.



4. Outer space is only an hours’ drive away – if your car could drive straight up.
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5. A lemon contains more sugar than a strawberry.
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Lemon contains 70% Sugar while Strawberry contains 40% Sugar



6. Gelatin is derived from collagen, a protein collected from animal skin.
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7. Another word for growling tummy sounds in “borborygmi”.
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8. Cows have distinct accents in their mooing, depending on where they are from.
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9.Chicago is named after smelly garlic that once grew in the area.
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10. North-Korea's debt
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Kim II-sung ordered 1000 Volvo sedans from Sweden to North Korea in 1974. However, he never paid for them. North Korea owes Sweden €300m for 1,000 Volvos and every 6 months Sweden sends them reminders.

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