The North Atlantic gets 2.5 centimetres (1in) wider every year.
119
The 'King Ranch' in Texas is bigger than the state of Rhode Island.
49
10 of the tributaries flowing into the Amazon river are as big as the Mississippi river.
41
Connecticut and Rhode Island never ratified the 18th Amendment (Prohibition).
25
More than a dozen men have stood on the surface of the moon, but only three have been to Challenger Deep in the Marianas Trench, the deepest known spot in the ocean.
17
If Manhattan had the same population density as Alaska, there would only be 15 people living there.
138
Check your map! The Pacific entrance of the Panama Canal is farther East than the Atlantic entrance.
40
Israel's Dead Sea is 1,312 feet below sea level.
48