AWESOME FACTS ABOUT EVERYTHING CXXI

1. The Hawaiian alphabet has only twelve letters:

    A, E, H, I, K, L, M, N, O, P, U, W

2. Damascus, Syria is the oldest capital city in the world.

3. At 15 miles, the LAERDAL tunnel in Norway is the world's longest road tunnel.M

4. The most densely populated city in the world is Manila, capital of the Philippines, with a staggering 119,600 people per square mile. By comparison, New York City has 29,302 per square mile, San Francisco - 18,790, and Los Angeles - 8,304.

5. Liberace's full name was Wladziu Valentino Liberace. He was born in Wisconsin, the son of an Italian father and Polish mother.

6. Monstro was the name of the whale in Walt Disney's Pinocchio

7. Of the Seven Dwarfs, Dopey was mute.

8. Archie Bunker's chair, from All in the Family, is displayed in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.

9. What is the tallest mountain in the world? The answer is not so obvious. From base to summit, starting at sea level, Mt. Everest in Nepal/Tibet is the tallest - at 29,029 feet. But the summit of Mt. Chimborazo in Ecuador, at "only" 20,702 feet, is the farthest from the center of the earth - due to earth's equatorial bulge. And Mauna Kea on the Big Island of Hawaii is 13,796 feet above sea level, but 19,700 feet under water - - - making it 33,496 feet from ocean floor to summit.