The average ice berg weighs 20,000,000 tons!
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The Caspian Sea is also classed as the world's largest lake.
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Connecticut and Rhode Island never ratified the 18th Amendment (Prohibition).
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Europe is the only continent without a desert.
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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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Check your map! The Pacific entrance of the Panama Canal is farther East than the Atlantic entrance.
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There's a lake under Antarctica that is 25 million years old called Lake Vostok.
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A volcano has enough power to shoot ash as high as 50 km into the atmosphere.
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