The world record for rocking non-stop in a rocking chair is 480 hours held by Dennis Easterling, of Atlanta, Georgia.

The largest desert in the world, the Sahara, is 3,500,000 square miles.

Lake Baikal is the oldest freshwater lake on Earth, having formed between 20 and 25 million years ago.

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