Here are a few more to exercise your mind.

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.

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 tha a road is unpaved in the U.S.A. is 1%. In Canada it is 75%.

The deepest hole ever drilled by man is the Kola Superdeep Borehole in Russia. It reached a depth of 7.62 miles.

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

The water of Angel Falls, the world’s highest in Venezuela drops 3,212 feet. They are 15 times higher than Niagara Falls