Check your map! The Pacific entrance of the Panama Canal is farther East than the Atlantic entrance.
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The Sahara desert expands at about 1km per month.
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The state with the longest coastline in the Continental U.S. is Michigan.
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If Antarctica's ice sheets melted, the worlds oceans would rise by 60 to 65 metres (200 - 210ft) - everywhere
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An earthquake on Dec. 16, 1811 caused parts of the Mississippi River to flow backwards.
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The state of Florida is bigger than England!
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A waterfall known as The Devil's Kettle empties water into a hole and nobody knows where it ends up!
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