Check your map! The Pacific entrance of the Panama Canal is farther East than the Atlantic entrance.
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Australia's Great Barrier Reef is 1,250 miles long!
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The state with the longest coastline in the Continental U.S. is Michigan.
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10 of the tributaries flowing into the Amazon river are as big as the Mississippi river.
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The Dallas/Ft. Worth airport is larger than New York City's Manhattan Island.
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An earthquake on Dec. 16, 1811 caused parts of the Mississippi River to flow backwards.
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Every person in the world can fit in Texas and be given over 1000 sq ft in which to live.
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