At 4,101 feet, Mt. Thor on Baffin Island, Canada, has Earth’s greatest sheer vertical drop.

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There is no spot in Central America more than 125 miles from the ocean.

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There’s a village in Norway called Hell, and it freezes over every winter.

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Despite their names, Iceland isn’t covered in ice and Greenland isn’t very green.

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At 3,212 feet high, Angel Falls in Venezuela is the highest uninterrupted waterfall in the world.

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There are more than 7,000 different Caribbean islands, but only about 2% of them are inhabited.

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Due to a discrepancy over border recognition between Egypt and Sudan, there is a region in Africa called Bir Tawil that belongs to no country.

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Monowi, Nebraska, is the only town in the United States with an official population of one person.

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Temperatures in the Namib desert can reach as high as 60°C during the day and below 0°C at night.

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“Holland” is a province, South and North, in The Netherlands, not the name of the whole country.

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