FIVE TALLEST MASONRY DOMED BUILDINGS IN THE WORLD

NAME	LOCATION	HEIGHT (Feet)
St. Peter’s Cathedral	Rome, Italy	446
St. Paul’s Cathedral	London, U.K.	355
Global Vipassana Pagoda	Mumbai, India	315
Santa Maria Del Fiore	Florence, Italy	295
Washington State’s Legislative Building	Olympia, Washington	287

WASHINGTON LEGISLATIVE BUILDING (CAPITOL) - TALLEST SELF-SUPPORTING MASONRY DOME IN NORTH AMERICA

WILD PIGS

Ø  Considered the 6^th smartest animal in the world
Ø  IQ of a 5-year-old human
Ø  Do not sweat
Ø  Extremely poor eyesight
Ø  Hearing similar to humans but don’t hear well while foraging
Ø  Incredible sense of smell, better than dogs
Ø  Piglets gain about 10 pounds a month until maturity. Boars continue gaining weight while sows fluctuate due to pregnancies.
Ø  Boars and Sows disperse, sounders (herd of wild swine) made up of females and their young
Ø  Young males form bachelor groups
Ø  When pigs are foraging all their heads will be to the ground feeding compared to deer herds which typically have one or more sentries

HOW MANY STOP SIGNS ARE THERE IN THE CITY OF PARIS, FRANCE?

The answer is none. In Paris, cars don’t come to a full stop at any intersection without a traffic light. Cars on the right have the right of way, at both regular intersections and in traffic circles. For some time, the city did have one stop sign. It stood at the exit of a construction facility on the Quai Saint-Exupéry, a riverside road in Paris’s 16th district on the outskirts of the city. Sometime between May 2012 and September 2014 it vanished and nobody knows why.

STOP SIGN ON THE QUAI SAINT-EXUPERY THAT IS NO LONGER THERE 

TEN PLACES WITH THE HIGHEST AVERAGE ANNUAL RAINFALL

Rank	Place	Location	Average Annual Rainfall
1	Mawsynram	Meghalaya State, India	467.36
2	Cherrapunji	Meghalaya State, India	463.66
3	Tutendo	Columbia, South America	463.38
4	Cropp River	New Zealand	453.38
5	San Antonio de Ureca	Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea	411.41
6	Debundscha	Cameroon, Africa	405.47
7	Big Bog	Maui, Hawaii	404.40
8	Mt Waialeale	Kauai, Hawaii	384.37
9	Kukui	Maui, Hawaii	365.86
10	Emei Shan	Sichuan Province, China	321.61

TEN MOST POPULOUS COASTLINE-COUNTIES

TEN MOST POPULOUS COASTLINE-COUNTIES
Rank	County	State	Coastline Region	Population (2016)
1	Los Angeles County	California	Pacific	10,137,915
2	Harris County	Texas	Gulf of Mexico	4,589,928
3	San Diego County	California	Pacific	3,317,749
4	Orange County	California	Pacific	3,172,532
5	Miami-Dade County	Florida	Atlantic	2,712,945
6	Kings County	New York	Atlantic	2,629,150
7	Queens County	New York	Atlantic	2,333,054
8	King County	Washington	Pacific	2,149,970
9	Santa Clara County	California	Pacific	1,919,402
10	Broward County	Florida	Atlantic	1,909,632

NATIONAL OCEAN MONTH - BAY OF FUNDY - WORLD'S HIGHEST TIDES

8 of the top 10 locations in the world where the largest range of tides have been observed are in the Bay of Fundy, Nova Scotia, Canada. Tides in this coastal zone reach a peak of around 50 feet. Twice each day, 160 billion tons of seawater flow in and out of the Bay of Fundy – more than the combined flow of the world’s freshwater rivers. The largest mean range is found at Burntcoat Head, Minas Basin, in the Bay of Fundy. Tides there have a mean range of 38.4 feet.

THE ALASKAN WAY VIADUCT REPLACEMENT TUNNEL

The Alaskan Way Viaduct replacement tunnel, also known as the SR 99 Tunnel, is a bored highway tunnel in Seattle. The 2-mile double-decker tunnel carries a section of State Route 99 under downtown Seattle. Construction began in July 2013 using “Bertha”, at the time the world’s largest-diameter tunnel boring machine. Tunnel boring was completed in April 2017, and the tunnel opened to traffic on February 4, 2019.

BACK OF "BERTHA" AND PARTIALLY COMPLETED TUNNEL WITH CONCRETE WALLS IN PLACE IN 2017