A flea can jump 150 times its size. That is the same as a person able to jump up 1,000 feet in the air.

When the volcano Krakatoa off the Java islands exploded in 1883, it was so loud that it woke some people up in South Australia.

The largest ocean liners pay a $250,000 toll for each trip through the Panama Canal. The canal generates fully one-third of Panama's entire economy.

AMAZING FACTS