Small differences in height can make a difference to the weather. Security guards on the top of the Empire State Building, New York, were able to make snowballs on November 3,1958 while rain fell on 34th Street 1,250 feet below.
It only snows about 2 inches per year over most of Antarctica. The coldest temperature ever recorded on Earth was in Antarctica -128.6 degrees Fahrenheit.
Snow isn't what usually comes to mind when envisioning Arizona's Old West and desert country in southern Arizona. Despite its extreme southern locale, Mount Lemmon Ski Valley can offer some of the best skiing in the state. The ski area averages an annual snowfall of 175 inches. Tucked into the Santa Catalina Mountains, Mount Lemmon's scenic ski area has the distinction of being the southernmost ski resort in the continental United States.
It snows more at the Grand Canyon than it does in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Soils require centuries, or even millennia, to form. According to the United States Soil Conservation Service, most topsoils cannot regenerate at rates of more than 5 tons per acre per year.
It takes 4,000 crocuses to produce a single ounce of saffron. Saffron is used to color and flavor foods and formerly as a dyestuff and in medicine.
Some deep ocean currents are moving so slowly that they will take thousands of years to reach the surface
It takes about five years for an oyster to produce a medium-sized pearl.
Some dinosaurs were as small as hens.
It takes nearly two million flowers to create one pound of jasmine.
Some orchids come from the deep jungles. But every country in the world, and every province in Canada, has at least one orchid species, including the Arctic. Ontario, for example, has more than 60 species of native orchids.
Ivy has long been identified with immortality. Because it's always green and clings tenaciously to life, it is often used as a symbol of eternal life in Christian art.
Some so rich in flowers that Australians call them “golden rain,” Australia’s national emblem is the wattle (Acacia). The plant appears in all the states and on the coat of arms. Its 600 species range from small shrubs to large trees. Settlers named the trees after seeing Aborigines interweave – or wattle – the branches into crude shelters.
Katharine Lee Bates wrote the words to the classic American anthem "America The Beautiful" after her trip to the summit of Pikes Peak in 1893.
Leaves, collected in the fall and spring, are the easiest material to compost, and they are the most common materials handled at yard waste facilities.
During the heating months of winter, the relative humidity of the average American home is only 13 percent, nearly twice as dry as the Sahara Desert
Each rain drop is made up of several million cloud droplets.
Each seed of the palm tree Lodoicea seychellarum weighs 30 pounds.
Each year, 9 million tons of salt, more than 10 percent of all the salt produced in the world, is applied to American highways for road de-icing. The cost of buying and applying the salt adds up to $200 million.
Eighty percent of the world's rose species come from Asia.
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