127. Can You Drown In The Dead Sea?

‘It is impossible to drown in the Dead Sea’, ‘No-one has ever drowned in the Dead Sea’ These are the words spoken by tens of thousands of people. Even ABC News, a fairly large news network in American, has published an article talking about the salty bowl of water. How cool, the perfect bathing spot. Well it would be, were it not for that they are all wrong. At best they not thinking about every type of drowning. Although that still makes them wrong.

This misconception arises from the fact that the Dead Sea is one of the most bizarre lakes (yes, LAKE) in the world. It is also the deepest hypersaline (salty) lake in the world. 420m below sea level. As well as being low, lying on the Jordan-Israel border it is also salty to a near excessive degree. Around 9 times as salty as the oceans of the world. The whole lake is 33.7% salt. This does of course, have side-effect.

 

26. Superb Saturn

FACT: Saturn, the beloved sixth planet from our sun is a very special planet. Beyond its spectacular rings are many other things one should know about the planet. The first thing, which you may already know, is that Saturn is classed as a ,’gas giant.’ This means what it sounds like, it is big and is mainly gas, very little hard stuff like the ground beneath your feet. Thanks to this abundance of gas and lack of rocks, Saturn has a paltry density of only 0.687 g/cm³.

This low number means one extraordinary thing, and that is this; were one to drop Saturn into a large body of water, its low density would cause Saturn to do something unexpected – it would float. It would sit there and float. Not something you would expect, especially when you consider that its mass is 95 times larger than the Earths.