If you liked reading Did You Know 1, then you will also enjoy reading this. Here are 5 more random, wacky facts. Enjoy!
- Across the planet there are hundreds of thousands of cities, towns and villages. If you have so far lived your entire life in a big city, you probably cannot imagine living away from the urban landscape. Weirdly enough, only starting in 2006 did half of this world's population lived in an urban setting. Before that, more people have always lived on farms rather than towns and cities.
- Due to the Dead Sea having such a high amount of salinity, nothing is able to live in it. However as a result of that much salinity, it is very easy to float on it if you go swimming!
- The space probe Voyager 1 is the most remote man-made object in the universe. By May 2008, it was 16 BILLION KM from the sun and it still remains operational.
- One percent of the world's population has NINETY PERCENT of the wealth. This does not include all the money in various governments and public money.
- J.K. Rowling, the creator of the Harry Potter series is richer than the queen of England. And that was BEFORE the sixth and seventh Harry Potter books were released.
So there are 5 more Did You KNows. If you liked this, read my other articles. Watch out for Did You Know 3.
