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As absurd as it can sound on paper, the truth is that facts are just fun, the more obscure, weird and random, the better. ... The swimming pools on the Titanic are still full of water to this day.
The Fairy Pools (Scottish Gaelic: Glumagan nan Sithichean [1]) are a series of natural pools and waterfalls in Glen Brittle on the Isle of Skye, Scotland They are in Coire na Creiche (" corrie of the spoils"), on the Allt Coir' a' Mhadaidh (" burn of the corrie of the wolf/dog"), [ 2 ] at the foot of the Cuillin mountains.
A swimming pool, swimming bath, wading pool, paddling pool, or simply pool, is a structure designed to hold water to enable swimming or other leisure activities. Pools can be built into the ground (in-ground pools) or built above ground (as a freestanding construction or as part of a building or other larger structure), and may be found as a ...
Typhoon Lagoon at Walt Disney World is the most visited water park in North America, and the second most visited in the world. A water park (also waterpark, water world, or aquapark) is an amusement park that features water play areas such as swimming pools, water slides, splash pads, water playgrounds, and lazy rivers, as well as areas for floating, bathing, swimming, and other barefoot ...
New York. Number of Residential Swimming Pools: 503,000. Average Number of People per Pool: 38. Despite being surrounded by water, New York still has one of the highest numbers of U.S. swimming pools.
One of the natural pools of water in the Lewis and Clark caverns turned green from human interaction. Lewis and Clark Caverns State Park is a 3,000-acre (1,200 ha) public recreation and nature preservation area located twelve miles (19 km) east of Whitehall in Jefferson County, Montana.
BSc meteorologist Janice Davila tells Bored Panda that one of the most unknown facts from her field of expertise is that weather radars are slightly tilted upward in a half-degree (1/2°) angle.
Wave pools are typically larger than other recreational swimming pools and for that reason are often in parks or other large, open areas. Some wave pools like those made by Wavegarden at Surf Snowdonia and NLand are expressly designed for surfing rather than for swimming, and accordingly, create much larger waves.