In 1958, the United States Coast Guard off western Greenland measured the tallest known iceberg at five hundred and fifty feet.

Thomas Watson, who was the chairman of IBM in 1943 predicted that their would probably only be a world market for five computers.

Alaska is the western-most AND eastern-most state of the United States. Its islands stretch so far they actually cross the 180th meridian - the global dividing line between "east" and "west".

AMAZING FACTS