Check your map! The Pacific entrance of the Panama Canal is farther East than the Atlantic entrance.
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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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A volcano has enough power to shoot ash as high as 50 km into the atmosphere.
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More than 25% of the world's forests are in Siberia.
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Australia's Great Barrier Reef is 1,250 miles long!
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The average ice berg weighs 20,000,000 tons!
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Europe is the only continent without a desert.
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Israel's Dead Sea is 1,312 feet below sea level.
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