things you did'nt know about niagra falls.

most powerfu waterfall ; now if you could get into a time machine

and travel back to 1969 you'd see

something spectacular what you're

• looking at isn't some random desert it's
• one of the most powerful waterfalls
• completely dry in the summer and fall of
• 1969 the American side of Niagara Falls
• stayed without water it lasted six
• months researchers wanted to study the

rock face of the falls they were afraid

0it was going to become too unstable

because of erosion erosion is the

process when natural forces such as

water and wind wear away Earthen

materials for example if you see glacial

ice become muddy it means erosion is

happening three waterfalls that cross

the international border between Canada

and the United States together makes

something we know as The Magnificent

Niagara Falls the three waterfalls are

the Horseshoe Falls the American Falls

and the bridal veil Falls in order from

largest to smallest the American Falls

are fully on the American AI while the

Horseshoe Falls are primarily on the

Canadian side divided by Goat Island the

bridal veil Falls the smallest of them

all are on the American side but

separated from the others by Luna Island

don't America and Canada have a cool

natural border many didn't believe we

could actually go against wild nature

and stop such insane amounts of water

from flowing but we did it it took a 600

foot Dam across the enormous Niagara

River to really shut down these

astonishing Falls this means they had to

divert sixty thousand gallons of water

every second so that the remaining flow

traveled over the biggest horseshoe

Falls yup the ones that are completely

on the Canadian side of the Border over

twenty seven thousand tons of rock were

used to construct that Dam and more than

a thousand trucks carried that rock back

in the hot summer of 69. on June 12th

the American Falls stopped after their

Continuous Flow for more than twelve

thousand years so the horse shoe falls

then took the extra flow and absorbed it

so that research could be done but the

locals were still worried they knew it

wasn't possible to control such amounts

of water they were afraid the water

might take a different route and cause a

catastrophic flood they were worried

that tourists wouldn't come anymore if

teams didn't manage to make the

waterfall flow again the way it used to

but tourists kept coming even that

summer and they got a unique chance to

see something no one had ever seen

before or after during that period there

was even a temporary walkway built only

20 feet away from the edge of the now

Dry Falls it helped workers to clean the

bottom of what used to be a river so

tourists could go there and explore the

wild landscape of the falls that was

usually under the water hostile and not

accessible to visitors at all as they

were exploring the dried bottom of the

falls researchers stumbled upon millions

of different coins people had thrown in

the water over decades Maybe to make a

wish or for some other purpose wow a

Niagara Falls piggy bank well they

removed most of those coins I wonder who

got them but in the past couple of

decades more and more tourists have been

coming here imagine all the things they

could find now more coins of course but

also lost cameras Eric drones cell

phones and other things careless

visitors could accidentally drop in the

waterfalls the idea of removing all the

water and turning Niagara Falls into a

desert proved to be possible but it may

need to be done again in 2020 the media

reported that two pedestrian bridges in

Niagara Falls needed to be either

replaced or repaired no wonder since

they're almost 120 years old these

bridges are located above the Rapids

experts discuss whether they should

divert the water once again or not

people talk about Niagara Falls a lot

and some believe they're among the

tallest waterfalls in the world but the

truth is they're not they're famous

precious and breathtaking but when it

comes to Hype there are nearly 500 other

waterfalls across the globe that are

taller than Niagara let's take Angel

Falls in Venezuela for example there are

more than three thousand feet tall but

what makes Niagara Falls so special

among other waterfalls is the amount of

water that flows over them very high

waterfalls don't usually have great

amounts of water the combination of all

those huge amounts of water and the

height is what makes Niagara Fall so

breathtaking also they might be some of

the fastest moving waterfalls on our

planet the Niagara River appeared after

the last ice age together with a whole

Great Lakes Basin the Niagara River is

part of it eighteen thousand years ago I

wasn't around then this awesome

waterfall didn't exist ice sheets

covered the area of Southern Ontario the

they were one to two miles thick as the

ice sheets were moving Southward they

created the Basin of the Great Lakes

then they melted releasing enormous

amounts of water into the basins

generally the water we drink is fossil

water only one percent of it renews

through the year with the remaining 99

coming from Ice Sheets the Niagara

Peninsula hasn't been beneath the eyes

for nearly 12 500 years as the ice

melted the resulting Water started to

flow down through what later turned into

Niagara River Lake Erie and Lake Ontario

it took a lot of time but the water

eventually eroded Cliffs and formed

these spectacular Falls

now you might have noticed that the

Niagara River is amazingly green this

specific color tells us how powerful the

water is when it comes to erosion every

minute Niagara Falls spews over 60 tons

of dissolved minerals all that together

with dissolved salt and finely ground

rock makes the color so magnificent

people who live in the United States and

Canada or more precisely over a million

people who have access to the area use

the Waters of Niagara River for

different purposes for example fishing

getting drinking water doing

recreational activities including

swimming boating and bird watching

producing hydroelectric power and so

much more now the first hydroelectric

Generating Station in the world was

built at the end of the 19th century and

it was right next to the falls pretty

soon it started paying off because

people were getting electricity from it

but this electricity could travel only

300 feet so something needed to be

improved there Nikola Tesla was the one

who took up the challenge and made the

necessary changes he discovered that

electricity could travel long distances

if an alternating current was used today

several Niagara Falls power plants

provide over 2 million kilowatts of

power

okay I'll tell you another interesting

thing 1969 wasn't the only time when

Niagara Falls stopped back in 1848 the

water didn't flow over the falls for up

to 40 hours now the Falls were already

very popular among tourists and a useful

source of energy for local people so no

wonder they freaked out nature was to

blame this time ice blocked the source

of the Niagara River an American Farmer

was the first one to notice it it was

March 29th and he went for a walk right

before midnight soon he realized he

couldn't hear the powerful Roar of the

falls he quickly went to the edge of the

river and stood there in shot there was

hardly any water

factories and Mills had to shut down

because they depended on that water

turtles were just wandering around fish

didn't survive some people took a walk

on the River Bottom taking little things

they could find there as souvenirs but

two days later on March 31st people

heard a distant rumbling coming from up

River it was getting nearer and louder

until a wall of water appeared in front

of their eyes and one of the World's

greatest attractions that millions of

tourists visit every year was back in

business again magnificent and in the

end Invincible as it should be that's it

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