Staggering facts

• The room of candles is a magical cave in eastern Italy. It gets its name from the white spikes of rock that grow up from the floor of the cave, like candles.
• The green house effect is the name scientists have given to a hot problem. Waste gases from factories power stations and cards are building up in the atmosphere and strapping too much heat close to the earth. Our planet is slowly getting warmer like a greenhouse in summer.
• The coldest place in the world is Vostok station in Antarctica. The temperature here is usually about – 58 cilices degree, but it has dropped to -89 cilices –the coldest ever known.
• In Hawaii there is mountain called Mauna Kea, which is more than 1300 meters higher than Mount Everest. But most of it is under the sea.
• There are volcanoes in space. The volcano Olympus Mons on the planet Mars is three times higher than earth’s Mount Everest.
• The people of ancient China believed that they r=earth was balanced on the shoulders of giant ox. Earthquakes happened when the ox shifted the earth from one shoulder to the other.
• In the Dead Sea, you can float while reading the paper. This is because the water is unusually salty and supports your weight.
• People of Mexico celebrate the day of the dead. It is celebrated every year on November 2. The day of the dead is also called all souls’ day. People remember their dead friends and relatives, taking flowers and candles to their graves and having picnics there.

Fact file

*The world’s shortest river is the D river in the USA. It is just meters!

*In the USA, in 1931, a tornado lifted a train into the air and dumped it in a ditch.