The Kawah Ijen Lake in Indonesia is located in a crater The lake is the largest sulfuric acid lake in the world The actual pH level in the lake is 5 As soon as you put an aluminum can in the acid it begins to sizzle and bubble Within 20 minutes the material is eaten away to the point of it being as thin as tissue

Australia s Bureau of Meteorology has had to add two new colors: deep purple and pink because the temperatures there are literally off the charts The previous temperature range had been capped at 50 degrees Celsius (122F) and now it goes to 54 (129 2) This is well above the all time record temperature of 50 7 degrees that they reached on January 2 1960

The Pentagon is virtually a city in itself Approximately 23 000 employees both military and civilian While in the building they tell time by 4 200 clocks drink from 691 water fountains utilize 284 rest rooms consume 4 500 cups of coffee 1 700 pints of milk and 6 800 soft drinks prepared or served by a restaurant staff of 230 persons Over 200 000 telephone calls are made daily through phones connected by 100 000 miles of telephone cable

The world s smallest time zone is only used by 200 people A compromise between Western and Central time unofficially known as Central Western Standard Time is used in one area in the southeastern corner of Western Australia and one roadhouse in South Australia The total population of that area is estimated at 200 people This area did not change when South Australia introduced DST During the Western Australian trial of DST from 2006 to 2009 this area also set it s clocks ahead one hour during summe

UNESCO and the Kenyan government put together a team of scientists to find water in Kenya and they discovered Lotikipi Basin Aquifer which is about 1000 feet underground measures 62 miles by 41 miles and is significantly larger than other aquifers discovered in the region In fact it holds 900% more water than what s in Kenya s current reserves The reserve is so large that it could meet the entire country s water needs for the next 70 years Using satellite radar and geological technology scientists found an aquifer-an underground layer of water-bearing material-that contains 200 billion cubic meters of fresh wate