The Pacific Ocean is bigger than every continent on Earth combined.

The Andes mountain range runs along the western edge of South America.

Japanese has three separate writing systems used simultaneously — hiragana, katakana, and kanji.

The tallest mountain from base to peak is Mauna Kea in Hawaii — it's just mostly underwater.

The city of Venice is built on 118 small islands connected by 400 bridges.

Antarctica is technically a desert — it receives less precipitation than the Sahara.

There are deep ocean trenches deeper than Mount Everest is tall.

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 first successful printing press in Europe was developed by Johannes Gutenberg.