There are more statues of Sacajewa, Lewis & Clark’s female Indian guide, in the United States than any other women.

An iceberg the size of Long Island, New York, has broken off Antarctica and has blocked sea lanes used by both ships and penguins.

The longest U.S. highway is route 6 starting in Cape Cod, Massachusetts going through 14 states, and ending in Bishop, California.

The United States has five percent of the world’s population, but twenty-five percent of the world’s prison population.

In the US, 60% of nursing home residents never have visitors. More than 50% have no close relatives, and 46% have no living children.

A custom called Namahage in Japan has men dressed up as demons to scare children who are guilty of bad behaviors, while parents watch.

Oslo, Norway is the world’s most expensive city. A gallon on gas costs almost $5, and it costs $1.32 to use the public restrooms.

About 1.4 million earthquakes happen annually. The largest earthquake ever measured had a magnitude of 9.5, in Valdivia, Chile, in 1960.

In 2004, 200 women in India, armed with kitchen knives, murdered a serial rapist. Then every woman claimed responsibility for the murder.

In Russia’s Kronotsky Nature Reserve, there is a bear population that huffs jet fuel from old barrels until they get high and pass out.

Homosexuality was classified as an illness in Sweden in 1979. Swedes protested by calling into work sick, saying they “felt gay”.

Residents of the island of Lesbos are Lesbosians, rather than Lesbians. (Of course, lesbians are called lesbians because Sappho was from Lesbos.

La Paz, Bolivia is the world’s most fireproof city. At 12,000 feet about sea level, the amount of oxygen in the air barely supports a flame.

In Chile, summer vacation lasts for about 12 weeks. In Ethiopia, vacation is 12 to 15 weeks. Germany, however, only has a very short 6 week vacation.

There’s a swing on the edge of a cliff in Ecuador. It has no safety measures and it is also called “swing at the end of the world”.