The Ultimate Pizza Quiz

The sea is home to 95 percent of all life on Earth. Still, we know more about the moon than we do about the huge body of water on our home planet. Less than five percent of the ocean has been explored. What we know for a fact is that due to climate change, marine life has become extremely endangered.

Sandy Island, a land mass no larger than Manhattan in the Pacific Ocean, was discovered by James Cook in 1876. When a team of Australian scientists went to survey the island in 2012, they found that there was no island at all! They believe that Cook might have spotted a mass of floating volcanic stone and gas.

Alexander Hamilton lied about his age in order to support himself. He needed to find an apprenticeship when he was 13 years old and thought that if he said he was 11, he would have an easier time finding a position. He landed a job as a clerk and a few years later, his writing impressed so many people that he was sent to New York to be educated.