Things that happen only on the Equator

While we were on the boat we learned about some other interesting facts of being near the equator. Besides water going down drains in opposite ways in each hemisphere but going straight down on the equator, we balanced an egg on a nail, tried to stand on the line with our eyes closed, and experimented with other phenomenon. Alejandra also told us why Ecuador does not experience hurricanes or cyclones. The currents in the Pacific ocean that affect the equator are the Humboldt, the Panama, and the Cromwell. The Humboldt and the Panama are in the southern hemisphere and the Cromwell in the northern hemisphere come together, they cancel each other out so that a hurricane or a cyclone cannot form. This is the Coriolis Effect, and at the equator the Coriolis force is zero - hence no rotation! Physics - wish I had taken it as a course.