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Bioluminescent bays glow bright blue at night when microorganisms called dinoflagellates are disturbed by movement.
The Dragon Blood Tree of Socotra Island produces red sap and looks like it belongs on an alien planet.
The Catatumbo Lightning in Venezuela produces lightning nearly 300 nights per year at the mouth of the Catatumbo River.
Lenticular clouds form over mountains and look so much like flying saucers that they are often mistaken for UFOs.
The Great Basin bristlecone pine is one of the oldest known non-clonal organisms, with some individuals exceeding 5,000 years in age.
Frozen methane bubbles trapped under Abraham Lake in Canada create an otherworldly landscape.
The average age of a video game player in the United States is 35 years old.
Approximately 4 million blog posts are published every day worldwide.
The first emoticon used in a digital message was :-) typed by Scott Fahlman in 1982.
The first video uploaded to YouTube was titled 'Me at the zoo' and was posted by co-founder Jawed Karim.
The inventor of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 2004.
The Roomba robotic vacuum cleaner has sold over 40 million units since its launch in 2002.
There are approximately 1.13 billion websites on the internet, but less than 200 million are active.
The first commercial GPS device for consumers was released in 1989 and cost $3,000.
The PlayStation was originally developed as a CD-ROM add-on for the Super Nintendo before Sony made it a standalone console.
Approximately 95% of all music downloaded online is done so illegally according to industry estimates.
The Mars Curiosity rover sings 'Happy Birthday' to itself every year on the anniversary of its landing.
The first known use of the @ symbol in email was by Ray Tomlinson in 1971 to separate usernames from computer names.
Over 500 million tweets are sent per day.
The first GIF ever created was an image of a rotating globe, made in 1987 by Steve Wilhite at CompuServe.
The original name for Windows was Interface Manager before it was changed prior to launch.
The average person will spend about 7 years of their life looking at a phone screen.
There are more transistors in a modern smartphone processor than there are stars in the Milky Way.
The first handheld mobile phone call was made by Martin Cooper of Motorola on April 3, 1973.
The total amount of data created, captured, and consumed globally in 2020 was estimated at 64 zettabytes.
The first webcam was created at the University of Cambridge to monitor a coffee pot so researchers could avoid walking to an empty pot.
The country with the most time zones is France, with 12, due to its overseas territories.
Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania is the tallest freestanding mountain in the world.
Bolivia has two capital cities — La Paz is the seat of government and Sucre is the constitutional capital.
The Strait of Gibraltar, separating Europe from Africa, is only about 8 miles wide at its narrowest point.
Russia has a larger surface area than Pluto.
The lowest point on land is the shore of the Dead Sea, at about 1,412 feet below sea level.
Singapore is both a city and a country.
The most remote inhabited island in the world is Tristan da Cunha, over 1,500 miles from the nearest populated landmass.
The Panama Canal saves ships about 7,800 miles of travel compared to going around the tip of South America.
There are 195 recognized countries in the world — 193 are members of the United Nations.
The Great Blue Hole off the coast of Belize is a giant marine sinkhole over 1,000 feet across and 400 feet deep.
Colombia is the only country in South America with coastlines on both the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea.
The country of Nauru is the world's smallest island nation at just 8.1 square miles.
Ethiopia follows its own calendar, which is roughly 7 to 8 years behind the Gregorian calendar.
The Sargasso Sea in the North Atlantic is the only sea without a land boundary, defined entirely by ocean currents.
Mongolia is the most sparsely populated country in the world, with only about 5 people per square mile.
The Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait are only 2.4 miles apart but are separated by the International Date Line, making them 21 hours apart in time.
Lake Vostok in Antarctica is a freshwater lake buried under 2.5 miles of ice and has been sealed off for about 15 million years.
There are more than 1,000 islands in the country of the Maldives, but only about 200 are inhabited.
Liechtenstein and Uzbekistan are the only two doubly landlocked countries in the world.
The barreleye fish has a completely transparent head that allows it to look straight up through its skull.
The sailfish can raise and lower a large dorsal fin to herd fish into tight groups before striking.
Ocean acidification caused by absorbed carbon dioxide is making it harder for shellfish and corals to build their calcium carbonate structures.
The fangtooth fish has the largest teeth of any fish relative to its body size and lives in some of the deepest parts of the ocean.