Unbelievable Facts - Strange Facts - Iceberg

Iceberg

Only one-ninth of an iceberg is above water.

The canopy if a rainforest is so thick that only one per cent of sunlight reaches the ground.

The longest mountain range in the world is under water. The Mid-Ocean Ridge extends about 40,000 miles from the Arctic Ocean via the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific off the west coast of North America .

Although the Earth’s crust consists of solid rock, if you were to break it down into its component elements, nearly half of it would vanish into thin air. This is because 46.6 per cent of the Earth’s crust is made up of oxygen.

Over 100 tons of cosmic dust fall to earth each day.

Every 2,000 years, a lump of space debris the size o a block of flats hits Earth.

If you gave everyone in the world the same size piece if land, each person would get approximately 100sq ft.

It is estimated that millions of trees in the world are accidentally planted by squirrels who bury nuts and then forget where they hid them.

The energy released in one day by the eruption of some volcanoes is 800,000 times as powerful as the Hiroshima atom bomb.

Ninety per cent of all volcanic activity takes place underwater.