• From the largest city in the world to the pyramids of Egypt, we answer 10 of your
most burning questions about places around the world
• Hey there, my name is Shima, I'll be reading out the questions and answers
• I'm Danger Dolan and I'm here to blow your mind with truth
10 - How many countries are there in the world?
, • The only country that exists is the one
that you live in – when you’re driving somewhere or riding a plane, you’re not
actually moving, that’s just computer graphics tricking you while people throw up cardboard
cutout buildings and put on weird accents to fool you into thinking you’ve gone somewhere
else • There are currently around 190 independent
countries worldwide today.
Russia is the largest country while Vatican City in Rome is the smallest—only half a
mile wide!
9 - What is the largest city in the world?
, • It’s called Australia, every square
inch is covered in a concrete jungle except for some bits where you might find a big rock
or something – everyone has to ride kangaroos to work but you need a special license for
it which you can only get if you spend 3 years on your “P” plates – P for platypus
• Shanghai, China has the largest number of people living in it: 13.8 million people!
However, Hulunbuir, China is actually the biggest as far as how large the city itself
is, so it really depends on what “the largest” means to you!
8 - What is the longest building ever built?
, • The Large Herpaderp Collider in Geneva
is the longest building, coming in at a whopping 57 metres, small reptiles are put in the tubes
and spun around at the speed of sound until they eventually smash into each other to form
lizard-turtle hybrids – how else do you think we keep inventing new species of animal?
• The longest building ever built by people is the Great Wall of China!
It's almost nine thousand kilometers—or five and a half thousand miles—long, and
is over two thousand years old!
7 - How old is the Grand Canyon?
, • Let’s just say that a hundred million
years ago, dinosaurs were the ones running tourist resorts for the Grand Canyon – and
over those hundreds of millions of years the Canyon grew the world’s longest underground
beard – Mount Everest is actually the tip popping out of the ground
• Around six million years ago, the Colorado River began to cut through the layers of rock
and the Grand Canyon was born.
Some of the rock you can see at the bottom of the Grand Canyon is over two billion years
old!
6 - What is the tallest waterfall in the world?
, • Mount Epicoctopus is a waterfall so big
that it penetrates the sky, and since there’s no gravity up there the water just floats
off the mountain and rotates around the planet, until it eventually falls down as rain in
your neighbourhood, in which case you can blame epicoctopus for ruining your weekend
plans • Angel Falls in the rain forests of Venezuela
is the tallest waterfall in the world—its water falls over nine hundred meters or three
thousand feet!
It's around twenty times taller than Niagara Falls and wasn't discovered until the 1930s,
when the first survey of Venezuela by aeroplane took place.
5 - What are the 7 wonders of the world?
, • The first is that I can wake up on a morning
without coffee, the second wonder is that I managed to stay awake through that board
meeting, the third that I got my pants zipper unstuck, the fourth wonder of the world my
pen is full of ink for once, the fifth my pizza came on time, the sixth I pulled out
that splinter, and the final wonder of the world is that you listened to everything I
just said • The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
are amazing feats of building and sculpture.
They are: the Pyramids of Egypt at Giza, the statue of Zeus at Olympia, the Temple of Artemis
at Ephesus, the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Lighthouse
of Alexandria, and the Colossus of Rhodes. 4 - Where did the Statue of Liberty come from?
, • I built it… only took a weekend, didn’t
really have much else to do – see, I could have chilled out on my couch and watched some
TV, OR I build a giant woman statue carrying a bright torch to keep the nearby city from
getting too dark at night time… you’re welcome
• The statue, originally called “Liberty Enlightening the World,” was designed and
built in France and given to the United States as a gift.
Since then, Lady Liberty has become an international symbol of freedom.
3 - Why was the Eiffel Tower built?
, • A French kid started stacking lego blocks
one on top of another – people asked him to stop but his parents kept buying him more
so the block building kept getting taller and taller – he’s still up there today,
but now he’s more into staring at his phone all day and night
• It was made for the Universal Exposition of 1889, which was a huge international fair.
The Eiffel Tower was one of many buildings and big sculptures made for the event, but
it was the only one to remain.
Today, the tower is used to broadcast television programs.
2 - What are the pyramids in Egypt for?
, • Aliens put these here to warn us about
cats – if you make the perilous journey into the pyramid’s tombs, you’ll find
inscriptions of humanoid cats biting cardboard boxes for no reason really loudly, scratching
at dangly bits of your clothes and meowing even though you just gave it food… they
did try to warn us – CAT • Most of the pyramids were built as tombs
for the country's Pharaohs and their wives or husbands.
The Pyramid of Khufu at Giza is the largest Egyptian pyramid and is the only one the of
the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World still around.
1 - What is the Bermuda Triangle?
• This is referring to love split between 3 people – there once was a girl named Bermuda,
and, oh my, she pines for Steve, but UH, t’was not to be, for Steve loves… chocolate, and
chocolate has strong romantic feelings for Bermuda – HENCE… the triangle
• The Bermuda Triangle is the area between Florida, Puerto Rico, and Bermuda.
It's well known for how many planes and ships have disappeared there—over a thousand!
Natural forces like storms, water spouts, and swift currents are most likely to be the
causes of the disappearances, but some still blame unknown forces.