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

The Amazon rain forest produces more than 20% of the world’s oxygen supply.

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

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 Ave. in Detroit carries the designation “M-1”, so named because it was the first paved road anywhere.

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

There are more Irish in New York City than in Dublin, Ireland; more Italians in New York City than in Rome, Italy; and more Jews in New York City than in Tel Aviv, Israel.

There are no natural lakes in Ohio, everyone is man made.

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

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

The driest place on earth is in the valleys of the Antarctic near Ross Island. There has been no rainfall there for two million years.