Israel's Dead Sea is 1,312 feet below sea level.
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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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Every year, Alaska has about 5,000 earthquakes.
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In 1850, only 8% of the people in California were women.
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Check your map! Virginia extends farther west than West Virginia.
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The Dallas/Ft. Worth airport is larger than New York City's Manhattan 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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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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