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    The Sahara desert expands at about 1km per month.
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    In 1850, only 8% of the people in California were women.
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    The Niagara Falls moves upstream at an average rate of about 295ft a century!
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    It takes a drop of ocean water more than 1,000 years to circulate around the world.
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    Fairy Bridge
    Fairy Bridge
    The largest natural bridge on Earth, the 'Fairy Bridge', was virtually unknown to the rest of the world until it was observed on Google Earth.
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    Israel's Dead Sea is 1,312 feet below sea level.
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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 Eternal Fire
    The Eternal Fire
    A natural gas vent in Iraq known as The Eternal Fire has been burning continuously for over 4,000 years, and is mentioned by Herodotus, Plutarch, and in the Old Testament’s Book of Daniel.
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