Facts You Probably don’t Need

• Virtually the entire continent of South America is east of Florida.

• If the earth was the size of a marble, you would need seven miles of space to build a scale model of the solar system.

• 87% of the world’s population lives in the northern hemisphere.

• Alaska is the most northern, western and eastern state in the U.S.

• Asia (17.2 million sq. miles) covers more surface area than the moon (14.6 million sq. miles).

•  If the land bridge between Alaska and Russia reemerged, it would take less than an hour to cross it.

• Minnesota has more shoreline than California, Florida and Hawaii combined.

• Reno, Nevada is farther west than Los Angeles, California.

• The largest mountain in the Netherlands is located in the Caribbean.

•  In 1777, Frederick the Great of Prussia issued a royal proclamation urging his subjects to drink beer instead of coffee.

            Facts by Sean McVeigh, factologist.