Check your map! The Pacific entrance of the Panama Canal is farther East than the Atlantic entrance.
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The city of Houston, Texas is built on a swamp and is slowly sinking!
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The average ice berg weighs 20,000,000 tons!
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Forest growth in the US has exceeded harvest since the 1940’s. Today, we have more trees than any time in the past 100 years.
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The Dallas/Ft. Worth airport is larger than New York City's Manhattan Island.
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The state of Florida is bigger than England!
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The water between India and Sri Lanka is only 3-30 feet deep and was purportedly passable on foot until 1480 AD when a cyclone moved some sand around.
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There are more than 50,000 earthquakes throughout the world every year!
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