Every year Alaska has about 5,000 earthquakes, 1,000 of which measure above 3.5 on the Richter scale.

In 1963, baseball pitcher Gaylord Perry remarked, "They'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run." On July 20, 1969, a few hours after Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, Gaylord Perry hit his first (and only) home run.

There is enough fuel in a full tank of a jumbo jet to drive an average car four times around the world.

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