Demo collection

French Guiana gives France a roughly 730 km border with Brazil, longer than France’s border with Spain.

Cleopatra died in 30 BC; the Great Pyramid was built more than two millennia before her lifetime, while Apollo 11 landed in 1969.

Teaching at Oxford is documented by 1096; the Aztec Empire dates to 1428.

Stegosaurus lived roughly 155–145 million years ago; Tyrannosaurus rex lived roughly 69–66 million years ago.

A population survived on Wrangel Island until around 2000 BC.

Venus takes about 243 Earth days to rotate once on its axis and about 224.7 Earth days to orbit the Sun.

The Aleutian Islands cross the 180th meridian, putting parts of Alaska in both the Eastern and Western hemispheres.

Antarctica is classified as the world’s largest cold desert.

Botanically, bananas qualify as berries while strawberries are aggregate accessory fruits.

Two hearts pump blood through the gills and one circulates it around the rest of the body.

Wombat feces are characteristically cube-shaped.

Since the 2022 settlement splitting Hans Island between Canada and Greenland, Canada and the Kingdom of Denmark share a short land border.

The amicable Hans Island dispute involved reciprocal flag-raising and bottles of Canadian whisky and Danish schnapps before being resolved in 2022.

The unicorn is one of Scotland’s national symbols.

Decommissioned spacecraft have been deliberately brought down in the remote South Pacific around the spacecraft cemetery near Point Nemo.

Saturn’s average density is lower than the density of liquid water.

Lake Vostok is a large subglacial lake beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet.

The Anglo-Zanzibar War of 1896 lasted less than an hour and is commonly described as the shortest recorded war.

An Armillaria ostoyae colony in Oregon has been described as one of the largest known living organisms by area.

Because Earth bulges at the equator, the summit of Chimborazo in Ecuador is farther from Earth’s center than Everest’s summit.

Turritopsis dohrnii can revert from its mature medusa stage to the polyp stage and is commonly nicknamed the ‘immortal jellyfish.’