More than half of the
coastline of the entire
United States is in Alaska.

The Amazon rainforest produces more than 20% the world's oxygen supply.

The Amazon River pushes so much water into the Atlantic Ocean that, more than one hundred miles at sea off the mouth of the river, one can dip fresh water out of the ocean.  The volume of water in the Amazon river is greater than the next eight largest rivers in the world combined and three times the flow of all rivers in the United States.

Antarctica is the only land on our planet that is not owned by any country.

Ninety percent of the world's ice covers Antarctica.  This ice also represents seventy percent of all the fresh water
in the world.  As strange as it sounds, however, Antarctica is essentially a desert.  The average yearly total precipitation is about two inches.

Brazil got its name from the
nut, not the
other way around.

Canada has more lakes than
the rest of the world combined.
Canada is an Indian word
meaning 'Big Village.'

Next to Warsaw, Chicago has the largest Polish
population in the world.

Woodward Avenue in Detroit,
Michigan, carries the
designation M-1, so named
because it was the first
paved road any where.

Damascus, Syria, was flourishing a
couple of thousand years before
Rome was founded in 753 BC, making
it the oldest continuously inhabited
city in existence.

Istanbul, Turkey, is the
only city in the world
located on two continents.

Los Angele's full name is
El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora
la Reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncula -- and can be
abbreviated to 3.63% of its
size: L.A.

The term 'The Big Apple' was coined by touring jazz musicians of the 1930's who used the slang expression 'apple' for any town or city.  Therefore, to play New York City is to play the big time - The Big Apple.

There are no natural lakes
in the state of Ohio, every
one is man made.

The smallest island
with country status
is Pitcairnin Polynesia,
at just 1.75 sq. miles
or 4,53 sq. km.

The first city to
reach a population
of 1 million people
was Rome, Italy in
133 B.C.  There is
a city called Rome
on every continent.

Siberia contains more
than 25% of the world's
forests.

The actual smallest sovereign entity in
the world is the Sovereign Military Order
of Malta (S.MO.M.).  It is located in the
city of Rome, Italy, has an area of two

In the Sahara Desert, there is a town named Tidikelt,
which did not receive a drop
of rain for ten years.
 
 

Spain literally means
'the land of rabbits.'

St. Paul, Minnesota , was originally
called Pig's Eye after a man named
Pierre 'Pig's Eye' Parrant who set
up the first business there.

Chances that a road is
unpaved in the U.S.A: 1%,
in Canada: 75%

The deepest hole ever drilled by man is the Kola Superdeep Borehole, in Russia . It reached a depth of 12,261 meters (about 40,226 feet or 7.62 miles). It was drilled for scientific research and gave up some unexpected discoveries, one of which was a huge  

The Eisenhower interstate system
requires that one-mile in every
five must be straight.  These
straight sections are usable as
airstrips in times of war or
other emergencies.

The water of Angel Falls (the
World's highest) in Venezuela
drops 3,212 feet (979 meters).
They are 15 times higher than
Niagara Falls.