The Stories Behind These Abandoned Islands Will Freak You Out

The More You Know

• The woolly mammoth survived until Egyptian times.
• Nearly 15 percent of Los Angeles is used as a parking lot.
• A reservoir in space holds 140 trillion times the amount of water in Earth's oceans.
• It costs the U.S. Mint almost twice as much to mint each penny and nickel as the coins are actually worth. Taxpayers lost over $100 million in 2013 just through the coins being made.