¤ The Great Wall of China covers more than 1/20th of the Earth's circumference.

¤ Mount Everest is a foot higher today than it was a century ago, and it is believed to still be growing.

¤ Lightning strikes the Earth 100 times every second, from the 1,800 thunderstorms in progress at any given moment.

¤ The United States Treasury Department maintains a fund known as "The Conscience Fund," which accepts money sent in anonymously by taxpayers who think they've cheated the government. The money is used for miscellaneous expenses.

¤ The longest single-word name of a place on Earth is: Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipuakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu. This place is a Moari name for a hill in New Zealand and consists of 85 letters. By the way, the name means “The place where Tamatea, the man with the big knees, who slid, climbed, and swallowed mountains, known as land-eater, played on the flute to his loved one."

¤ The Kwoma of New Guinea consider it proper for the girl to make sexual advances rather than the boy in order to help the men avoid upsetting the girl's parents.