Whether you’ve just completed school or you graduated decades ago, there are likely many things you don’t know about the extraordinary planet on which we live.

For instance: Were you aware that the Pacific Ocean is shrinking every year? Or that the world includes a sea without coasts? Or that Alaska isn’t just the westernmost state in the U.S., but the easternmost as well?

The third rock from the sun is much more complex than you may think — as evidenced by these alternative facts about geography.