3. Remember to bring your: Bathing suit An umbrella Sandals Winter coat Scarf Gloves Surf board Water bottle

5. The Amazon River, in South America, is not as long-4,007 miles- but it is considered mightier because it carries half of all river water in the world!

6. The lake was formed about 25 million years ago.

8. Mt. Everest is considered the highest mountain-above sea level- in the world, but its not really the tallest. What is???

9. The hottest temperature ever recorded in the US is 134.6 degrees in Death Valley, CA.

10. Coldest Place on Earth… -129 degrees Fahrenheit. Average summer temperature is -58 degrees.

11. The WETTEST place on earth.

12. NO rain for over 400 years! A place must receive less than 10 inches of rain per year to be considered a desert.

13. Windiest place on Earth… 231 miles per hour! Would you like to take a ride up the mountain?

14. 17 times larger than Niagara Falls

15. The trench is 36,202 feet deep.

16. Most Active Volcano Since 1937 it has erupted once every 24 hours on average. It once erupted more than 400 times in a single day.

17. The water level rises and falls more than 50 feet every six hours.

18. One year, more than 1,200 inches of snow fell there.