Europe is the only continent without a desert.
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In 1850, only 8% of the people in California were women.
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Venice Island was built on a foundation of tree trunks. 1200 years later, those same trunks still support almost all of central Venice.
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A volcano has enough power to shoot ash as high as 50 km into the atmosphere.
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The warmest temperature ever recorded on Antarctica was 3 degrees F.
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Every year, Alaska has about 5,000 earthquakes.
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More than 25% of the world's forests are in Siberia.
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There's a lake under Antarctica that is 25 million years old called Lake Vostok.
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