FACTHUB

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Our world is interestingly growing with plenty of continents and amazing places to visit. Technological and scientific achievement have brought lots of known and interesting information about our planet but there are much more unknown facts about us and our surroundings that are worth mentioning.

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We will be using this post to share with steemit community a few facts about our planet.

1. Carrots were once purple.
   
   Until late in the 16th century Dutch growers took mutant strains of the purple carrot and gradually developed them into the sweet, plump, orange variety we have today.

2. Nile is the Longest River in The World
   
   The Nile is the longest river in the world measuring about 6,670 km (4,160 miles) in length although the Nile is usually associated with Egypt, only 22% of the Nile’s course runs through Egypt the rest flows through Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya,Uganda, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Sudan. The banks of river Nile saw the origin of the oldest civilizations in the world.

3. The world's largest family stays in India. The husband has 39 wives and 94 children.
   
   Ziona Chana also has 94 children, 14-daughters-in-law and 33 grandchildren. They live in a 100-room, four storey house set amidst the hills of Baktwang village in the Indian state of Mizoram.

4. Russia has a larger surface area than Pluto.
   
   Pluto is 2370 kilometres (1473 miles) across, which can easily fit within Russia’s largest east-to-west radius of 10,000 km and the north-to-south size of 4000 km.

5. In 2011, a woman named Aimee Davison purchased a 'non visible' piece of art for $10,000.
   
   She was promised an entire wing of the museum named in her honour & a title card with a description of the piece. The artwork in question was "Fresh Air".

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