What is the largest U.S. city in land area?
It is not New York, Chicago, or Los Angeles.
It is Juneau, Alaska, which covers 3,108 square miles.
Los Angeles, in contrast, covers only 458.2 square miles.
Point Barrow, a city in Alaska with a 1980 population of 2,207, mostly Eskimo. It was the site of the 1935 air crash that killed Will Rogers.
About 100,000 hairs are on a human head. Human hairs grow about 0.01 inch every day.
Yes folks, American women still earn less money than American men. In 1988, the median weekly earnings of full-time female workers in all occupations were 70.2 percent of male workers’ earnings.
Hailstones begin as frozen raindrops or pellets of snow in a thunderstorm cloud. These “hail embryos” are carried by updrafts to a part of the storm where droplets of water exist in a supercooled state (that is, in liquid form at temperatures below freezing). These supercooled droplets freeze into ice when they strike the surface…
As of 1988, 764,247 members of the U.S. military were on active duty.
The center of the 48 contiguous states is in Smith County, Kansas, near the town of Lebanon. The center of the 50 states is in Butte County, South Dakota, west of the town of Castle Rock.