Alaska

More than half of the coastline of the

entire United States is in Alaska.

Antarctica

Antarctica is the only land on our planet

that is not owned by any country.

Ninety percent of the world's ice covers Antarctica .

This ice also represents seventy percent of all the fresh water in the world. As strange as it sounds, however, Antarctica is essentially a desert. The average yearly total precipitation is about two inches.

Although covered with ice (all but 0.4% of it is ice),

Antarctica is the driest place on the planet,

with an absolute humidity lower than the Gobi desert.

Canada

Canada has more lakes than the rest of the world combined.

Canada is an Indian word meaning

' Big Village '.

Chicago

Next to Warsaw, Chicago has the largest

Polish population in the world.

Detroit

Woodward Avenue in Detroit, Michigan

carries the designation M-1.

So named because it was the first paved road anywhere.

Istanbul, Turkey

Istanbul, Turkey is the only city in the world located on two continents.

Los Angeles

The full name of Los Angeles is:

El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de

Los Angeles de Porciuncula

It can be abbreviated to 3.6% of its size: L.A.

New York City

The term 'The Big Apple' was coined

by touring jazz musicians of the 1930s

who used the slang expression 'apple' for any town or city.

Therefore, to play New York City

is to play the big time - The Big Apple.

There are more Irish in New York City

than in Dublin , Ireland ;

more Italians in New York City

than in Rome , Italy ;

And more Jews in New York City

than in Tel Aviv , Israel .

Ohio

There are no natural lakes in the state of Ohio . . .

everyone is man-made.

Rome

The first city to reach a population of 1 million people

was Rome, Italy (in 133 B.C.)

There is a city called Rome on every continent.

Siberia

Siberia contains more than 25% of the world's forests.

Roads

Chances that a road is unpaved:

in the U.S.A = 1%;

in Canada = 75%

Russia

The deepest hole ever drilled by man is the

Kola Super deep Borehole, in Russia .

It reached a depth of 12,261 meters

(about 40,226 feet or 7.62 miles.)

It was drilled for scientific research

and gave up some unexpected discoveries,

one of which was a huge deposit of hydrogen

- so massive that the mud coming from the hole

was boiling with it.

United States

The Eisenhower interstate system requires

that one mile in every five must be straight.

These straight sections are usable as airstrips

in times of war or other emergencies.

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I have always said, you should learn something new every day. Unfortunately, many of us are at that age where what we learn today, we forget tomorrow.

But, give it a shot anyway.