If you would like to know some interesting but pretty useless information, be sure to read "The Ultimate Book of Useless Information", by Noel Bothama. From the book you will find out if there is a place on Earth where didn`t rain in the last 2 million years? Here's the answer: it's Dry Valleys in Antarctica. There is no snow or ice there. This is because there are blowing strong winds, which reach up to 320 kilometers per hour, and blow-off the rain. Scientists say that there the Earth's environmental conditions are closest to Mars.

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Source: https://www.coolantarctica.com/Antarctica%20fact%20file/antarctica%20environment/dry-valleys-blood-falls-don-juan-pond.php

•	The most dirty non-polar place is the Atacama desert in South America, with about 15 mm of rain per 
         year.

•	Do you believe there is a city called Dildo in Canada? And it has about 1,000 inhabitants in it. If you want to visit it, the hotels are not too expensive, about 72 euros a night.

•	In London, 150 mobile phones are delivered daily to the Lost and Found Office.

•	The red sea got its name because of algae that change normal, intense blue color into red.

•	Every Valentine's Day in Rome and Juliet's Home in Verona arrives about a thousand letters.

•	In India, there are 154,882 postal offices, more than in any country in the world.

•	In the Indiana (USA)  there is a place called Santa Claus.

•	The only river that runs north and south across the equator is the Congo.

•	One third of the energy in Iceland is from geothermal sources.

•	The official name in English for Switzerland is the Swiss Confederation, in the Latin Confederation of Helvetica. That's why cars have a CH label.

•	The New York Bronx is the only city district that has "the" as part of its name. The name was named after the Bronx River, and the river by the Swede Jonas Bronck, the first European settler there. He arrived in 1639 and bought the land from the local Indians.

•	Finland is the country with the cleanest air in the populated world.

•	The oldest national anthem in the world is the Netherlands, dating back to 1572.

•	The smallest and shallowest ocean in the world is the Arctic Ocean. Its average depth is 1,038 meters, and its surface is 14 million square miles. For comparison, the average depth of the Pacific Ocean is 4.280 meters and covers 161.8 million square kilometers.