16 Amazing Travel Facts

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    • Publish Date: Nov 25 2016 12:14PM
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    • Updated Date: Nov 25 2016 12:14PM
16 Amazing Travel Facts

The best thing about travel is that you end up opening yourself up to shitloads of real information - something that reaches you directly and is not filtered through search engines. On the flip side, it's always great if you know some really cool facts about certain places before you've visited them. You then get to enjoy seeing them play out irl. That's why you're reading this. And you should.


1. The Swiss Military keeps fully stocked artillery bunkers disguised as quaint country homes in the middle of populated villages.

2.Tetaumatawhakatangihangakoauaotamateaurehaeaturipukapihimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuaakitanarahu, in New Zealand is the longest name of a place in the world. It has 92 letters.

3. There is no land at the North Pole. It's floating ice in the sea that expands and contracts depending on what season it is.

4. The world’s deepest underwater mailbox lies 10m deep, below the surface of Susami Bay, Japan.

5. About 96 per cent of people on Earth speak only 4 per cent of the world's languages.

6. Australia has 10,000 beaches more than any other country in the world.

7. Austrians get a minimum of 22 paid vacation days. Per year.

8. Barely 1 per cent of the world's population has travelled to Antarctica. Are you the 1 per cent?

9. 99 per cent of Libya is a desert.

10. If you were a flight attendant in the 1930s, you wouldn't be allowed to weigh more than 52 kg. 

11. Saudi Arabia has no rivers. None. This makes it the only country in the world with this 'situation.'

12. Big Ben refers to the bell inside the tower and not the clock.

13. The Statue of Liberty was initially meant to be installed and used as a lighthouse.

14. Machu Picchu was created to withstand earthquakes. This explains its unique design where the stones fall back into place after an earthquake has hit an area and faded.

15. The Eiffel Tower is a daily place of work for 600 Parisians.

16. Not the Grand Canyon, it is Tibet’s Tsangpo Canyon that is the world's biggest and deepest canyon.


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Rathi Bethel Mat Hr Sec School

Amazing news !!! wow interesting !

Mahima Pradhan LEXICON INTERNATIONAL LEXICON INTER

Visiting the Eiffel Tower is my biggest dream! France looks beautiful in pictures, I wonder how more beautiful it would be in real life!

Emily Liz Gilbert CHAVARA INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY

wow!! Cool facts. It was fun learning something new.

REYA JESSICA Bethel Mat Hr Sec School

Wow on hearing this would like to visit these places i''m on travel mode

Akshita Pandey LILAVATI BAI PODAR (A)-SCRUZ

Traveling is really a great thing. Touring the places will increase your general knowledge about that particular place. I wish to see the whole state of United States Of America. I also want to see the White House in front of my eyes.

Hemalatha.G Sethu Bhaskara Matriculation Higher Secondary Scho

Quite interesting!

malavika NEW GREEN FIELD SCHOOL(KALKAJI_ALAK

amazed!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ronit.R National Hill View Public School

amazing facts

jashn sachdeva Guru Harkrishan Public School, Punjabi Bagh

wow! name of a place with 92 letters.

Pandu Sree Narayana Vidya Bhavan

Quite interesting!It was fun learning something new.! France looks beautiful in pictures, I wonder how more beautiful it would be in real life!

AAKARSH JACOB MATHEW ST.THOMAS SCHOOL, INDIRAPURAM

i wish i could see Machu Picchu

PAVAN KARTHIK N GEAR INNOVATIVE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL

wow it is an amazing news about it !!!!!! how interesting !!!!!! and amazing facts.

S.P.Hiranya Preetha NSN Memorial School

OMG!!!!!

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