The city of Houston, Texas is built on a swamp and is slowly sinking!
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The water of the Antarctica is so cold that nothing can rot there.
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A volcano has enough power to shoot ash as high as 50 km into the atmosphere.
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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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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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Connecticut and Rhode Island never ratified the 18th Amendment (Prohibition).
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Forest growth in the US has exceeded harvest since the 1940’s. Today, we have more trees than any time in the past 100 years.
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