Sicily
About Sicily
Sicily, officially the Sicilian Region, is an island in the central Mediterranean Sea and one of the twenty regions of Italy, situated south of the Italian Peninsula in continental Europe. With over 4.7 million inhabitants, including 1.2 million in and around the capital city of Palermo, it is both the largest and most populous island in the Mediterranean Sea.
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Sicily grows a lot of lemons.
from No Such Thing As A Glazed Lizard Donut · read transcript
More facts about Sicily
When lava approached a Sicilian town, they pumped billions of gallons of water at it with water cannons for months, and it eventually stopped, saving the town.
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The most terrifying prospect for people living near the volcano is a flank eruption, where the side of the volcano blows off rather than a fountain from the top.
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To protect the city of Syracuse, Archimedes invented a giant claw that could lift enemy ships clean out of the water, so successful that Roman soldiers grew scared of any rope.
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