Antarctica. Parts of the continent have seen no rain for two million years.
A desert is technically defined as a place that receives less than 254 mm (10 inches) of rain a year. The Sahara gets just 25 mm (1 inch) of rain a year.
Antarctica’s average annual rainfall is about the same, but 2 per cent of it, known as the Dry Valleys, is free of ice and snow and it never rains there at all. Baca lebih lanjut
It’s on Mars.
The giant volcano Mount Olympus – or Olympus Mons in Latin – is the highest mountain in the solar system and in the known universe. At 22 km high (14 miles) and 624 km (388 miles) across, it is almost three times the height of Mount Everest and so wide that its base would cover Arizona, or the whole of the area of the British Isles. The crater on the top is around 72 km (45 miles) wide and over 3 km (nearly 2 miles) deep, easily big enough to swallow London. Baca lebih lanjut
Mauna Kea, the highest point on the island of Hawaii.
The inactive volcano is a modest 4,206 m (13,799 feet) above sea level, but when measured from the seabed to its summit, it is 10,200 m (33,465 feet) high – about three-quarters of a mile taller than Mount Everest. As far as mountains are concerned, the current convention is that ‘highest’ means measured from sea level to summit; ‘tallest’ means measured from the bottom of the mountain to the top. Baca lebih lanjut
It’s a mushroom.
And it’s not even a particularly rare one. You’ve probably got the honey fungus (Armillaria ostoyae) in your garden, growing on a dead tree-stump. Baca lebih lanjut
A telemessage.
It’s no longer a telegram from Her Majesty and it isn’t automatic – you have to apply for it.
UK inland telegrams were abolished in 1982 and replaced by telemessages which are delivered the next day, along with the normal post. BT describes the new service as: ‘an efficient means of contacting customers with vital information, integrating into their whole customer communication strategy to produce real added value results.’ Sounds enticing, doesn’t it? Baca lebih lanjut
a) A very large mushroom
b) A small family car
c) A grapefruit
d) A sailor Baca lebih lanjut
Once upon a time every schoolboy’s hand would have shot up and the class would have shouted ‘Rowland Hill in 1840, Sir!’ in unison. Not these days.
This isn’t such a disaster, because those clever-clogs were wrong. William Dockwra had already established the London Penny Post 240 years earlier. It handled packets up to one pound in weight, there were several deliveries a day, and items were also delivered to addresses within ten miles of London for an extra charge of one penny. Baca lebih lanjut
