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! Virginia extends farther west than West Virginia.
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Due to gravitational effects, you weigh slightly less when the moon is directly overhead.
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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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Louisiana is the only state that grows in land area every year (Due to alluvial deposits from the Mississippi River).
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The 'King Ranch' in Texas is bigger than the state of Rhode Island.
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10 of the tributaries flowing into the Amazon river are as big as the Mississippi river.
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