10 FACTS ABOUT THE WORLD THAT WILL BLOW YOUR MIND - PART 2

With around 200 countries and more than 7.5 billion people, the world is full of interesting, fun, and fascinating people, places, and things. Here are 10 Fascinating facts about the world that will blow your mind - Part 2.

1- It snows in the Sahara Desert :

Deserts are known to have very low precipitation. And if rainfall is rare, wouldn’t snowfall be even rarer? Well, the impossible happened in 2018 and the Sahara Desert was covered in a blanket of white snow. However, the snow only lasted for a day before melting under the hot sun.

2- The 2 countries in the world where COCA-COLA doesn't exist :

You might think Coca Cola is something you can find anywhere in the world but these two countries have been in long-term US trade embargoes — North Korea since 1950 and Cuba since 1962.

3- The Sahara desert used to be a tropical rainforest :

6,000 years ago the Sahara Desert was tropical, so what happened? Summary: ... As little as 6,000 years ago, the vast Sahara Desert was covered in grassland that received plenty of rainfall, but shifts in the world's weather patterns abruptly transformed the vegetated region into some of the driest land on Earth.

4- A real-life Spirited Away bathhouse exists in Tainan:

Jiufen, Taiwan, is popularly known as the mountain village that inspired Miyazaki’s Spirited Away. However, down south in Tainan has a real-life replica of the famed bathhouse.

Located in the Breezy Valley Art Village is the Breezy Village Guesthouse. It closely resembles the iconic bathhouse, especially with Yubaba greeting you at the front — don’t offend her or she’ll turn you into a pig.

5- You could walk from Russia to Alaska on ICE :

The narrowest distance between mainland Russia and mainland Alaska is approximately 55 miles. ... The stretch of water between these two islands is only about 2.5 miles wide and actually freezes over during the winter so you could technically walk from the US to Russia on this seasonal sea ice.

6- Sudan has the most pyramids not egypt :

Although Egypt is famous for pyramids, Sudan has 220 pyramids, making it the country with the most numerous pyramids. Actually, the pyramids are the reason that most adventure seekers travel to Sudan. The Meroe pyramids are in the eastern desert of Sudan and are part of the Nubian Pyramids.

7- Moonquakes ? Earthquakes on the moon :

A moonquake is the lunar equivalent of an earthquake. They were first discovered by the Apollo astronauts. The largest moonquakes are much weaker than the largest earthquakes, though their shaking can last for up to an hour, due to fewer attenuating factors to dampen seismic vibrations.

8- Earth once had 2 moons ?

Earth may once have had two moons. A teensy second moon — spanning about 750 miles (1,200 km) wide — may have orbited Earth before it catastrophically slammed into the other one. This titanic clash may explain why the two sides of the surviving lunar satellite are so different from each other, said scientists in the Aug. 4, 2011, issue of the journal Nature.

9- Rocks can walk :

Rocks can walk on Earth, at least they do at the pancake-flat lakebed called Racetrack Playa in Death Valley. There, a perfect storm can move rocks sometimes weighing tens or hundreds of pounds. Most likely, ice-encrusted rocks get inundated by meltwater from the hills above the playa, according to NASA researchers. When everything's nice and slick, a stiff breeze kicks up, and whoosh, the rock is off.

10- 70% of earth surface is covered in water :

When astronauts first went into the space, they looked back at the Earth with human eyes for the first time. Based on their observations, the Earth acquired the nickname the “Blue Planet:. And it’s no surprise, seeing as how 70% of our planet is covered with oceans. The remaining 30% is the solid crust that is located above sea level, hence why it is called the “continental crust”.