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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There's a lake under Antarctica that is 25 million years old called Lake Vostok.
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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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If Manhattan had the same population density as Alaska, there would only be 15 people living there.
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10 of the tributaries flowing into the Amazon river are as big as the Mississippi river.
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The city of Houston, Texas is built on a swamp and is slowly sinking!
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