Mount Everest de-throned as the world's tallest mountain

Picture this, you beryllium down astatine a pub quiz and you're asked to sanction the world's tallest mountain.

It's Mount Everest, right? Everybody knows that. But no, you're wrong, and the squad of implicit 70s wins for the 382nd week successful a row.

There are plentifulness of things we deliberation we cognize about, but the world is we larn caller things each day. Life would beryllium beauteous boring if we knew everything already.

For example, travellers to Egypt would beryllium forgiven for reasoning that determination are 4 sides to the pyramids of Giza, due to the fact that thing much than 4 would beryllium insane, close Jeremy? Wrong again.

Maybe you deliberation you're an adept connected thing similar Harry Potter, but lone aft 20 years of watching it bash you realise the talented British histrion who voiced Dobby.

Many would beryllium speedy to presume that Mount Everest is the tallest upland successful the satellite (LAKPA SHERPA/AFP via Getty Images)

Anyway, I'll enactment you retired of your misery and explicate precisely wherefore Mount Everest technically isn't the tallest mountain, successful an update which I'm definite is going to devastate spread twelvemonth students crossed the world.

Everest's highest stands astatine an awesome 8,849m supra the ocean, making it the portion of onshore astatine the highest altitude connected Earth.

However, it is not the tallest upland successful the world erstwhile you see that immoderate of its competitors commencement beneath oversea level.

Nobody archer Donald Trump, but America is really location to the world's tallest mountain.

Technically the world's tallest upland (Getty Stock)

Maybe it's compensating for something?

Mauna Kea, a long-dormant volcano successful Hawaii, stands astatine a mammoth 10,205m (33481 feet) successful height, which practically makes Mount Everest a abbreviated king by comparison.

The US authorities is intelligibly the spot to beryllium erstwhile it comes to perfectly gigantic earthy features, arsenic if you privation to speech astir the upland with the top volume, past you besides request to accidental goodbye to Nepal and aloha to Hawaii.

Mauna Loa is different progressive volcano which encompasses astir 10,000 cubic miles (42,000 cubic kilometres), making it 1 of the biggest things connected Earth.

Mauna Loa erupting (Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

If you privation to get adjacent much circumstantial with your definitions, and possibly you deliberation the closest upland to the prima should instrumentality the title, past you'll request to sojourn Ecuador to spot Mount Chimborazo.

Due to Ecuador being located connected the equator and the Earth not being perfectly spherical, the progressive volcano located conscionable 1 mile southbound of the equator really sticks retired a small much than others, making it the closest to the sun.

So, the adjacent clip you're asked the question astatine a pub quiz, it mightiness beryllium safer to enactment 4 antithetic answers to marque definite you get the point, not that the squad that is marking yours volition admit it.