Geographical Facts

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10 of the tributaries flowing into the Amazon river are as big as the Mississippi river.
A volcano has enough power to shoot ash as high as 50 km into the atmosphere.
An earthquake on Dec. 16, 1811 caused parts of the Mississippi River to flow backwards.
Australia's Great Barrier Reef is 1,250 miles long!
Check your map! The Pacific entrance of the Panama Canal is farther East than the Atlantic entrance.
Check your map! Virginia extends farther west than West Virginia.
Connecticut and Rhode Island never ratified the 18th Amendment (Prohibition).
Due to gravitational effects, you weigh slightly less when the moon is directly overhead.
Europe is the only continent without a desert.
Even Antarctica has an area code. It's 672.

Every year, Alaska has about 5,000 earthquakes.
Forest fires move faster uphill than downhill.
If Manhattan had the same population density as Alaska, there would only be 15 people living there.
In one day, a full grown redwood tree expels more than 2 tons of water through its leaves.
Israel's Dead Sea is 1,312 feet below sea level.
It takes a drop of ocean water more than 1,000 years to circulate around the world.
Louisiana is the only state that grows in land area every year (Due to alluvial deposits from the Mississippi River).
Mexico City is built on top of an underground resevoir!
More than 25% of the world's forests are in Siberia.
One cubic mile of seawater contains about 50 pounds of gold.
The 'King Ranch' in Texas is bigger than the state of Rhode Island.

The Amazon rainforest produces more than 20% the world's oxygen supply.
The Atlantic Ocean is saltier than the Pacific Ocean.
The average ice berg weighs 20,000,000 tons!
The city of Houston, Texas is built on a swamp and is slowly sinking!
The Dallas/Ft. Worth airport is larger than New York City's Manhattan Island.
The longest cave in the world is the 'Mammoth Cave System' in the USA at 560,000 mtrs deep!
The Niagara Falls moves upstream at an average rate of about 295ft a century!
The state of Florida is bigger than England!
The state with the longest coastline in the Continental U.S. is Michigan.
The warmest temperature ever recorded on Antarctica was 3 degrees F.
There are more than 50,000 earthquakes throughout the world every year!