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includes the three Great Pyramids and the Great Sphinx, is nearby. Modern Cairo was founded in the year 969, and is home to the world’s second-oldest university, Al-Azhar University, established in 970. • The world’s fifth largest city has more than 21 million people. Sao Paulo, Brazil, is the largest city in South America, and the largest Portuguese-speaking city in the world. Jesuit priests founded the village as a mission on top of a plateau between two rivers in 1554, and named it after the Apostle Paul. The first church building was a hut covered with palm leaves. The village remained in extreme poverty until gold was discovered in the early 1700s. Today’s Sao Paulo has absolutely no billboards, due to their Clean City law passed in 2006 which bans any “visual pollution.” • Mexico City, at number seven in world population, was settled in 1325 by the Aztecs, who called the village Tenochititlan. In 1585, it became officially known as Ciudad de Mexico, or Mexico City. It’s the oldest capital and the largest city in the Americas. In 1900, the city’s population was just 500,000. In less than 120 years, it has grown to more than 21 million people. More than 4 million passengers ride the city’s Metro every day. Mexico City is a sinking city, sinking about 4 inches (10 cm) every year, and perhaps as much as 32.8 feet (10 meters) in the last 60 years. • Delhi, India is the world’s second-largest urban area with close to 26.5 million people, and has been inhabited since at least 600 B.C. It’s estimated that 18 billionaires and 23,000 millionaires live in this city. Four years ago, the city was the most polluted city in the world, but improved in 2016 to the sixth-worst, with the deaths of 10,500 people every year attributed to air pollution. Of the world’s ten most polluted cities, nine are in India. (continued in next column)

• Tokyo, Japan is the world’s largest city, with 38.1 million people. It was first settled as a small fishing village named Edo. Around the year 1500, there were just a few thousand people, but by the early 1700s, Edo had its first one million residents. In 1868, when the Japanese imperial family moved there, it became the capital city, and was renamed Tokyo, which translates to “Eastern Capital.” Tokyo’s Shinjuku Station is the largest railway station in the world, with an average of 3.75 million passengers passing through every day. Tokyo can be an expensive place to visit. It has more top-rated restaurants than any other city in the world, and the mega-suite at the Ritz Carlton will set you back $20,000 per night. The city was the first to have a Disney park outside the U.S., a resort that employs 20,000 people. Even with its enormous population, Tokyo is a very safe city, with one of the lowest crime rates per capita of any major city. • Although Chicago has nearly 8.8 million people, it’s not classified as a mega-city. It ranks as the 38th largest city in the world. • Canada doesn’t have a single mega-city. Its largest city, Toronto, ranks 57th in the world, with close to 6 million inhabitants, the only Canadian city in the Top 150. Miami is right behind Toronto at #58 , with 5.8 million, and Dallas is at #61 with 5.7 million.

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Indulge yourself in these delicious facts, as Tidbits observes National Pastry Day on December 9. • How about a helping of strudel? It first gained popularity in the 1700s during the Habsburg Empire in the area that would eventually become Austria-Hungary. The word has its origins in the German word that means “whirlpool” or “eddy.” Strudel dough should be rolled very thin, so thin that, according to the Austrian Emperor’s cook from long ago, it should be “possible to read a love letter through it.” After the filling (usually apple) is spread on the dough, the dough is rolled up carefully and baked. • Prior to 2013, there was no such thing as a Cronut. That’s when New York City pastry chef Dominique Ansel created this pastry that is a cross between a croissant and a doughnut. The dough is close to that of the croissant, then filled with flavored cream and fried in grapeseed oil. Within three days of Ansel’s first creation, it was a hit, and within nine days, he had filed for a trademark for the Cronut name. Don’t look for Cronuts in your local bakery – they’re only sold at Ansel’s bakeries in New York, Los Angeles, Tokyo, and London. • Visit Prato, Italy, and you can try Brutti-boni, a concoction of finely-ground almonds and meringue. What’s unusual about these confections? Their name actually translates to “ugly but good”! • How about flies’ graveyard for dessert? This is the nickname for a United Kingdom sweet pastry filled with currants or raisins, which are the “flies” in the “graveyard.” A similarlynamed confection is squashed fly cake, a small round flaky pastry, also filled with currants. (continued on page 6)

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THE PACIFIC OCEAN (cont’d): and dolphins also live there. • Fifty-five countries border on the Pacific Ocean, including Canada, the United States, China, Australia, Japan, and Mexico. Indonesia’s 17,508 islands make up a large percentage of the Pacific Ocean’s 25,000+ islands. Japan has another 3,000. • The average depth of the Pacific Ocean is around 13,500 feet (4,115 m). The Mariana Trench, located in the western Pacific Ocean, is the deepest part of the world’s oceans. It’s a crescent-shaped trough in the Earth’s crust, measuring 1,580 miles (2,550 km) in length and about 43 miles (69 km) in width, 120 times bigger than the Grand Canyon. At the southern end of the Trench near Guam is a valley in its floor known as the Challenger Deep, the deepest known point on the planet. It reaches to a