- Terminal 5 at New York’s JFK features a coat check, so if you are going somewhere warm, you can leave your cold-weather gear at the airport and pick it up when you get back
- London’s Heathrow Airport uses cars equipped with loudspeakers that blast the distress calls of different bird species to scare them away from the runways
- Worldwide, nearly 13M sq miles – larger than Africa – of land and sea has been set aside for conservation
- The ice on Niagara falls was first successfully climbed in 2015
- Oklahoma has more man-made lakes than any other state
- Iceland, Greenland, Yemen, Oman, Bhutan, Libya, and Papua New Guinea have no railways
