The Amazon River is longer than the Nile River.

(The Amazon is about 4,000 miles long and the Nile is about 4,130 miles long.)

Oxford University is older than Cambridge University. (Oxford University was founded in 1167 and Cambridge 43 years later.)

The English alphabet is shorter than the Arabic alphabet. (There are 26 letters in the English alphabet and 28 in the Arabic alphabet.)

K2 is more dangerous to climb than Mount Everest.

(25% of climbers who get to the top of K2 die, but only 9% of climbers of Everest die.)

A gigabyte is larger than a megabyte.

(A megabyte is 1,000 bytes, but a gifjabyte is 1,000 megabytes.)

The Sahara Desert is drier than the Atacama Desert. (Sahara Desert average rainfall = 0.79 inches; Atacama Desert average rainfall= 0.004 inches.)

New Zealand is farther south than Australia.

(It's about 1,242 miles southeast of Australia.)

The pyramids in Egypt are older than the Parthenon in Greece.

(The pyramids are about 4,500 years old and the Parthenon is about 2,500 years old.)

World War I was shorter than World War II.

(World War I lasted four years (1914- 1918), but World War II lasted six years (1939-1945).)

The mountains on Earth are higher than the mountains on Mars.

(Olympus Mons on Mars is 16 miles high; Everest is about 5 miles high.)

China is bigger than Canada.

(Canada is about 3,800,000 square miles; China is about 3,700,000 square miles.)

Coffee is more popular with women than men in the US. (On average, men drink 1.9 cups of coffee a day and women drink 1.4 cups of coffee a day.)

The Mediterranean Sea is warmer than the Red Sea. (Mediterranean Sea average temperature = 75- 78 °F; Red Sea average = 78- 86 °F.)

It's better to do exercise in the morning than in the afternoon.

(In the afternoon between 4 and 5 p.m., the body temperature is at its maximum, which means it is the perfect time to exercise.)

The earth is hotter than the moon.

(The average temperature of the moon is about 225 F during the day; the average temperature of the earth is 55-62 "F.)