The Elephant Whisperers" | Lawrence Anthony

1. The shortest war in history was between the countries of Zanzibar and Great Britain in 1896 and lasted only 38 minutes.
2. The tallest building in the world is the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, which stands at 828 meters (2,716 feet) tall.
3. The world's smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat, which weighs less than a penny and can fit on the tip of your finger.
4. The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.
5. The highest waterfall in the world is Angel Falls in Venezuela, which drops 3,212 feet (979 meters) from its highest point.
6. The Great Barrier Reef, located off the coast of Australia, is the world's largest coral reef system.
7. The world's largest diamond was the Cullinan, which weighed 3,106 carats (about 1.4 pounds) when it was discovered in South Africa in 1905.
8. The human nose can detect over 1 trillion different scents.
9. The world's largest rodent is the capybara, which can weigh up to 140 pounds and is native to South America.
10. The sun is a star and is the largest object in our solar system.
11. The oldest known animal is a species of sponge that has been around for over 700 million years.
12. The world's largest snowflake on record was 15 inches wide and 8 inches thick, and fell in Montana in 1887.
13. The longest recorded flight of a paper airplane is 27.6 seconds.
14. The world's largest volcano is Mauna Loa in Hawaii, which stands at 13,678 feet (4,169 meters) tall.
15. The world's largest desert is the Sahara, which covers over 3.6 million square miles (9.4 million square kilometers).
16. The world's largest fish is the whale shark, which can grow up to 40 feet (12 meters) long and weigh over 20 tons.
17. The world's largest flower is the Rafflesia arnoldii, which can grow up to 3 feet (1 meter) in diameter and weigh up to 15 pounds.
18. The deepest point on Earth is the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean, which is over 36,000 feet (11,000 meters) deep.
19. The world's largest tree by volume is the General Sherman tree in California, which has a volume of over 52,000 cubic feet (1,478 cubic meters).
20. The world's first computer programmer was Ada Lovelace, who wrote the first algorithm intended to be processed by a machine in the mid-1800s.