26Roopkund Lake
Scattered around Roopkund Lake in the Indian Himalaya are the bones of about 800 people who seemingly died in a single unknown event in 800 A.D. Newer studies reveal that some of the bones belong to another group of people who also died in a single event, a thousand years after the others.
27. There is a Native American lake named Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg. It means "you fish on your side, I fish on my side, and no one fishes in the middle." Located in the town of Webster, Massachusetts, it is known more commonly as Lake Chaubunagungamaug or Webster Lake.
28. The saltiest body of water on Earth is the Don Juan Pond. It is located in Antarctica but never freezes because of its high salinity.
29. There is a lake in the country of Palau where jellyfish evolved without stingers after the lake's connection to the sea closed, leaving them isolated from their natural predators. These 'Golden' jellyfish are totally harmless to humans and you can swim with them.
30. Lake Disappointment in Western Australia was named so because the explorer who discovered it followed creeks inland expecting to find a large lake, only to be disappointed when it turned out to be a large salt flat.
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31Lake Baikal
Lake Baikal holds one-fifth of the world’s unfrozen freshwater; more than all the great lakes combined, yet it covers half the area of Lake Michigan. It is both the deepest (1 mile) and the oldest (25 million years) lake in the world.
32. Some lakes in USA are stocked with fishes by dropping hundreds of fish out of an airplane flying over.
33. North America's Lake Superior contains 10% of the world’s surface freshwater and at its depths also holds the remains of 6,000 shipwrecks.
34. Lake Karachay in Russia has been used as a radioactive waste dump for a long time now and it has been described as the most polluted place on the planet. Just standing on the shore of this lake for an hour would give you a lethal dose of radiation.
35. The ponds that are common in residential neighborhoods in USA are not installed as water features. They are actually retention basins used to offset the drainage capacity of the ground removed by paving roads and building houses.
