Dead Sea
The Dead Sea’s shore is the lowest land on Earth, and its water is so salty that people float like corks.
Antarctica
Antarctica is the largest desert on Earth, because it barely snows there, even though it is all ice.
Stonehenge
Stonehenge was sold at auction in 1915 for £6,600, and the buyer gave it to the nation three years later.
Statue of Liberty
The Statue of Liberty was originally shiny copper-brown and took about 30 years to turn green.
Mount Everest
The summit of Mount Everest is made of limestone containing fossils of sea creatures.
London Bridge (Arizona)
In 1968 London Bridge was sold to an American businessman and rebuilt in the Arizona desert.
Leaning Tower of Pisa
The Leaning Tower of Pisa started leaning before it was finished, and took 199 years to build.
Big Ben
Big Ben is the name of the great bell, not the clock tower, and the bell has had a crack since 1859.
University of Oxford
Teaching at Oxford began by 1096, more than two centuries before the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan was founded.
Great Pyramid of Giza
Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the building of the Great Pyramid.