The largest snowflake ever recorded was 15 inches wide and 8 inches thick, reported in Montana in 1887.

Japanese has three separate writing systems used simultaneously — hiragana, katakana, and kanji.

The first novel ever written is widely considered to be 'The Tale of Genji', written by a Japanese woman around 1000 CE.

The CIA conducted covert operations in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War.

The Earth's continents were once joined in a supercontinent called Pangaea.

Vatican City is the world's smallest country — it covers just 0.44 square kilometers.

The Nile Delta is one of the world's largest river deltas.

Caribou migrate in large herds across Arctic regions.

There are more than 17,000 islands in Indonesia — making it the world's largest archipelago country.