EDGES OF THE WORLD
SCIENCE & STUFF
HUMANITY'S ODD ACHIEVEMENTS
IT HAPPENED BY ACCIDENT
FAMOUS FIRSTS
100
This ocean is the largest on Earth
Pacific Ocean
100
This is the hardest natural substance on Earth
Diamond
100
There are more fake flamingos in the world than real ones — they are made of this material
Plastic
100
This breakfast food was invented when someone accidentally left wheat paste out to dry overnight
Cornflakes
100
This man was the first to walk on the Moon
Neil Armstrong
200
This desert is the largest hot desert on Earth
Sahara
200
This planet has a storm that has been raging for over 350 years
Jupiter
200
The Eiffel Tower grows up to 15 cm taller in this season
Summer
200
This medicine was discovered after mold accidentally contaminated a petri dish
Penicillin
200
This country became the first to use paper money over 1,000 years ago
China
300
This lake is the deepest in the world
Lake Baikal (1642 m)
300
A bolt of lightning is five times hotter than this
The surface of the Sun
300
This city has more bicycles than people
Amsterdam
300
The microwave was invented after an engineer noticed radar waves had melted this in his pocket
A chocolate bar
300
This city was the first in the world to have an underground railway system
London
400
This is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea
Sicily
400
This is the only continent with no active volcanoes
Australia
400
This tiny country has more UNESCO World Heritage Sites per square kilometer than any other
Vatican
400
This sticky office item was invented when a scientist tried and failed to make a super-strong glue
Post-it note
400
This was the first human-made object to reach space
V-2 rocket (1944)
500
This country has more lakes than the rest of the world combined
Canada
500
This part of the human body contains the smallest bones
The ear
500
This canal, opened in 1869, connected the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea
Suez Canal
500
Coca-Cola was originally invented by a pharmacist as a cure for this
Headaches / morphine addiction
500
This was the first country to give women the right to vote
New Zealand (1893)
