Only 5 to 10 percent of cheetah cubs make it to adulthood.

A full-loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes at least 20 minutes to stop.

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".

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