“Until 2010, The Lion King, which was released in 1994, was the highest gross animated film of all time.”

Caused by a 8.3 Earthquake Largest Wave (Ocean) 524m high, hit Lituya Bay on July 9, 1958

Largest Coral Reef composed of roughly 3,000 individual reefs and 900 islands, 161 miles and can seen from outer space.

Tallest Dog Irish Wolfhound can reach an average of 7 feet when standing.

Coldest Temperatures Recorded in Antarctica. -129 degrees F.

Smallest Bird Hummingbird is 2.5 inches long and only 0.06 oz.

Longest Flying (land bird) is Common Swift. Can go up to 3 years without landing.

Longest Worm : Boot Lace Worm. More than 180 feet long. (1864) 

Oldest Living Tree (NEW): Pine Tree in California named Methuselah. Over 4700 years old. Kept secret for it’s protection.

Most Massive Tree : “General Sherman,” the Giant Sequoia at 275 ft tall and weighs 2000 tons.

Most Dangerous Parasite : Malarial parasites of the genus Plasmodium, which are carried by Anopheles mosquitoes, have probably been responsible for half of all human deaths.

Deepest Place in Ocean : Challenger Deep, Marianas Trench. 35,838 feet down (that’s over 7 miles)

Loudest insect : African Cicada at 107 decibels it is almost as loud as a road drill

Rarest Sheep : Dwarf Blue Sheep. Weighs 55-97  Lbs. China fewer than 200 left

Slowest Growing Tree : White Cedar in Canada

Highest Flying Bird : Ruppell’s Griffon Vulture at about 7 miles up

Cosmic Latte is the color of the universe, according to a team of astronomers from Johns Hopkins University. In 2001, Karl Glazebrook and Ivan Baldry determined that the color of the universe was a greenish white, but they soon corrected their analysis in “The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey: constraints on cosmic star-formation history from the cosmic spectrum”, published in 2002. In this paper, they reported that their survey of the color of all light in the universe added up to a slightly beige white. The survey included more than 200,000 galaxies, and measured the spectral range of the light from a large volume of the universe. The hexadecimal RGB value for Cosmic Latte is #FFF8E7.

Dancing mania is the name given to a phenomenon that occurred mainly in mainland Europe from the 14th century through to the 17th century, in which groups of people would dance through the streets of towns or cities, sometimes foaming at the mouth or speaking in tongues, until they collapsed from exhaustion. The first major outbreak of the mania was in Aachen, Germany, in July 1374. The dancers went through the streets screaming of wild visions, and even continued to writhe and twist after they collapsed from exhaustion. The dancing quickly caught on, and spread rapidly throughout France and the Low Countries. The mania reached its peak in 1418 in Strasbourg. At at least one point, so many people had either been afflicted with the dancing mania, or caught up in the dancing, or were trying to give assistance, or simply watching the events unfold, that the town was brought to a complete halt.

The Moon’s orbit (its circular path around the Earth) is indeed getting larger, at a rate of about 3.8 centimeters per year. (The Moon’s orbit has a radius of 384,000 km.) The reason for the increase is that the Moon raises tides on the Earth. Because the side of the Earth that faces the Moon is closer, it feels a stronger pull of gravity than the center of the Earth. Similarly, the part of the Earth facing away from the Moon feels less gravity than the center of the Earth. This effect stretches the Earth a bit, making it a little bit oblong. 

It is expected that in 15 billion years, the orbit will stabilize at 1.6 times its present size, and the Earth day will be 55 days long equal to the time it will take the Moon to orbit the Earth.