The Great Lakes contain about 20% of the world's surface freshwater.

There are places on Earth that have never been explored.

Mount Everest lies on the border between Nepal and China.

Greenland is the world's largest island.

Hawaii is moving toward Japan at about 3 inches per year.

The Amazon River discharges more water into the ocean than the next seven largest rivers combined.

Mount Everest is not the closest point to space — due to Earth's equatorial bulge, Mount Chimborazo in Ecuador is actually closest to the stars.

The Dead Sea lies at one of the lowest elevations on land.

New Zealand was one of the last places on Earth to be settled by humans, around 1250–1300 CE.