Did You Know That

CanadaCanada has more lakes than the rest of the world combined. Canada is an Indian word meaning ' Big Village '.

Chicago
Next to Warsaw , Chicago has the largest Polish population in the world.

Damascus, Syria
Damascus, Syria, was flourishing a couple of thousand years before Rome was founded in 753 BC,making it the oldest continuously inhabited city in existence.

Istanbul, Turkey
Istanbul, Turkey, is the only city in the world located on two continents.

Los Angeles
Los Angeles' full name is:
El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncula and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size: L.A.

New York City
The term 'The Big Apple' was coined by touring jazz musicians of the 1930s who used the slang expression 'apple' for any town or city. Therefore, to play New York City is to play the big time - The Big Apple.

There are more Irish in New York City than in Dublin , Ireland ; more Italians in New York City
than in Rome , Italy ; and more Jews in New York Citythan in Tel Aviv , Israel .

Rome
The first city to reach a population of 1 million peoplewas Rome , Italy in 133 B.C.There is a city called Rome on every continent.

Siberia
Siberia contains more than 25% of the world's forests.

Sahara Desert
In the Sahara Desert , there is a town named Tidikelt , Algeria ,which did not receive a drop of rain for ten years.Technically though, the driest place on Earth is in the valleys of the Antarctic near Ross Island .There has been no rainfall there for two million years.

Spain
Spain literally means 'the land of rabbits'.

Russia
The deepest hole ever drilled by man is the Kola Superdeep Borehole, in Russia .It reached a depth of 12,261 meters(about 40,226 feet or 7.62 miles).It was drilled for scientific research and gave up some unexpected discoveries,one of which was a huge deposit of hydrogen- so massive that the mud coming from the holewas boiling with it.

Waterfalls
The water of Angel Falls (the world's highest) in Venezueladrops 3,212 feet (979 meters).They are 15 times higher than Niagara Falls .