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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It's still possible to see the division between East and West Germany due to different light bulbs.
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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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Mexico City is built on top of an underground resevoir!
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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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More than a dozen men have stood on the surface of the moon, but only three have been to Challenger Deep in the Marianas Trench, the deepest known spot in the ocean.
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The state with the longest coastline in the Continental U.S. is Michigan.
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Europe is the only continent without a desert.
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