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    Australia's Great Barrier Reef is 1,250 miles long!
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    One cubic mile of seawater contains about 50 pounds of gold.
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    Sheikh Hamad Had His Name Carved into Island
    Sheikh Hamad, billionaire and royal family member in the United Arab Emirates, had a huge carving of his name that's even visible from space etched into a private island.
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    There's a lake under Antarctica that is 25 million years old called Lake Vostok.
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    The Amazon rainforest produces more than 20% the world's oxygen supply.
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    Louisiana is the only state that grows in land area every year (Due to alluvial deposits from the Mississippi River).
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    It takes a drop of ocean water more than 1,000 years to circulate around the world.
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    10 of the tributaries flowing into the Amazon river are as big as the Mississippi river.
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