A random fact you know about the world...

True Dat...:willy_nilly:



Cheers Glen.

 

Inis Beag, an island off the coast of Ireland is one of the most sexually repressed cultures in the world. Sex is looked upon as a necessary evil for reproduction. Even married couples have sex fully clothed aside from exposing the necessary southern bits, and only missionary is acceptable. Any sort of premarital affection is prohibited.

No wonder they have a drinking problem... I would too!

 

The lowest land point on Earth is the shore of the Dead Sea, between Israel and Jordan.
The Dead Sea is also the saltiest sea on Earth.

 

Apparently, El Hierro Volcanic Region in Canary Islands is a geological time bomb with the potential for tsunami that would reach the East Coast USA.

http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-ne...ble-tsunami-threat-to-u-s-east-coast_10132011

 

Does it also have the ability to reach the west coast of Africa?

 

I haven't read enough about it yet.

 

In Cambodia, there's a combined lake and river system called the Tonle Sap. It meets the Mekong in Phnom Penh and then flows out into the South China Sea. But that's only most of the year.

In monsoon season, so much water is flowing through the Mekong, that when it meets the Tonle Sap, it pushes the water back upstream, back into the lake, which triples in size!! It's the only major river in the world that does this I believe.

Every year the Cambodians build boats and wait for the monsoon to celebrate the flowing back to the Tonle Sap with boat festival.

 

Saudi Arabia is the birthplace of Islam and home to Islam's two holiest shrines in Mecca and Medina.

 

The last common ancestor between apes and humans is estimated to have existed between 4 to 8 million years ago.

 

If You Say So...



Cheers Glen.

 

The going rate for a North Korean refugee wife is less than 300 dollars.

 

Really interesting. Never knew, thanks.

 

I remember hearing about that when I was in Cambodia a few years ago. I am still amazed by this!!!

 

The World is an oblate spheroid due to equatorial bulge caused by centrifugal force as it spins on its axis.

 

No one has reached the bottom of Lake Tahoe in the Sierra Mountains in California.

 

Why would one want to do that?