The weight of the air above a swimming pool averaging 8 feet deep is about 10 times the weight of the water in the pool.

Light from the sun reaches Earth in about 8 minutes. If there was air between sun and earth, sound from the sun would reach us in about 13 1/2 years.

Kodak invented the digital camera in the 1970's, but didn't run with it - - oops!

Miami Beach is due south of Erie, PA.

Yes, if you go due south from Reno, you'd eventually enter the Pacific Ocean just west of Santa Barbara, about 100 miles west of LA. Likewise, Lake Tahoe is further west than Malibu. And if you go due east from the southern tip of Malibu at Point Dume, you'll eventually enter the Atlantic Ocean at Kure Beach near Wilmington, NC.

Angle Inlet, MN is the northernmost town in the continental US, but you have to drive through 60 miles of Canada to get to it; you'll have to bring your passport.

It does snow in Death Valley National Park; Telescope Peak, at 11,043 feet, regularly gets quite a bit of it:

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A few more geographic items, then some general ones:

Crescent City, CA is closer to Vancouver, BC than to San Diego (by quite a bit actually).

Port Arthur, Texas is closer to the Atlantic Ocean off Jacksonville than it is to El Paso.

Century, FL to Chicago by car is only 6 miles further than it is to Key West.

Otherwise ...

All the light energy captured over the years by the Hubble Space Telescope from those galaxies and nebulas you've seen photos of amounts to fewer photons than hit your body while reading this sentence.

A planet has been found that's so hot ... ("How Hot Is It?") ... that it rains iron there. WASP-67b. Would that be anti-rust rain?

The famous "Cadillac Ranch" in Texas with the cars stuck upright in the ground lets visitors spray-paint art on them. It's all cleaned up periodically so people can start fresh. But if you go after it's rained, be aware the ground they're in gets really muddy!

There are other outdoor car art sites: CarHenge in Nebraska has Chevys arranged to match Stonehenge. A site near the Cadillac Ranch has VWs. There are several dozen cars and a school bus or two mired in the earth outside of Tonopah, NV. (Been to each.)