What is the world's largest fish?
The harmless whale shark holds the title of largest fish, with the record being a 59 footer captured in Thailand in 1919.
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Most consumed energy resource in the U.S
Currently, OIL provides the largest share of U.S. energy consumption -- about 41 percent of the entire market. Natural gas provides about 24 percent, coal 23 percent, hydropower 4 percent and nuclear power 8 percent.
In the United States, natural gas is used for:
Industrial processes = 46%
Residential use = 22%
Generating electricity = 15%
Commercial buildings = 15%
Blue whale weight and length
Blue whales reach between 70-110 feet in length and weigh up to 150 tons.
Biggest animal in the world
The blue whale is the largest animal in the world. The largest blue whale caught was a 110-foot female. It is not
known how the angler got this beast home or how they fit it in the freezer.
Blue whale massacre crustaceans
The blue whale, the worlds largest animal at 110 feet according to guiness world records eat krill, which are shrimp-like crustaceans only about an inch-and-a-half long.
Pick on somebody your own size? Not whales! An adult whale might slaughter 40 million, or 4-6 tons of these little creatures in one day!!
Amazingly, the krill population persists, but you have to assume this perpetual atrocity affects the krills ability to develop a stable society.
What is the world's largest animal?
The world's largest mammal, the blue whale, weighs 50 tons at birth. Fully grown, it weighs as much as 150 tons.
How tall is the world's tallest tree
A 379.1' Redwood in Redwood National Park is currently the world's largest tree
What is the biggest city in the U.S.
If Brooklyn, New York became independent of New York City, it would be the third largest city in the United States, after the remainder of New York and Los Angeles.
What is the largest number of coins you can have without being able to make change for a dollar.
If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins
Don't forget about the hippo
Hippos are the third largest animal on land. Only elephants and some rhinos are bigger.
The biggest brands in the world
The 3 most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
What's the world's largest bird
The average adult male ostrich, the world's largest living bird, weighs up to 345 pounds.
Can you name the world's biggest octopus?
The Pacific Giant Octopus, the largest octopus in the world, grows from the size of pea to a 150 pound behemoth potentially 30 feet across in only two years, its entire life-span.
The third largest city in Nebraska
When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home to a sellout crowd, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city.
The anaconda is one big snake, and it does something unusual.
The anaconda, one of the world's largest snakes, gives birth to its young instead of laying eggs.
The world's largest living bird
The average adult male ostrich, the world's largest living bird, weighs up to 345 pounds.
What is the highest point on earth?
The highest mountain in the world is not Mt. Everest. The Earth is not perfectly round, it is like when you roll a piece of silly putty in a ball and squish the top a little bit. Therefore, the equator is popped out. Seeing as how the Himalayas are some ways away from the equator, although Mt. Everest is highest above sea level, the highest point on Earth is somewhere in the Andes in South America
What was the battle of Normandy anyways?
The Battle of Normandy was the decisive battle of World War II fought in the summer of 1944 between the Allied nations and German forces. The Normandy Invasion, or D-Day, is the largest ocean-based invasions in history with nearly three million troops participating. The battle stretched from the English Channel to Normandy, France in German-occupied Western Europe.
Who is the world's largest producer of coconuts?
The Philippines is considered to be the largest producer of coconuts in the world
What is the largest clam ever recorded
The largest clam ever recorded (as of 2008) was found in Okinawa in 1956, it weighed 750 pounds.
Is Antarctica completely frozen?
Antarctica is the 5th largest continent and approximately 98% of Antarctica is covered by ice which averages 1 mile in thickness. Predictions on when global warming will lead to ice-less polar regions ranges from 2012-2050. Scientists agree it's not a matter of if, but when.