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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The warmest temperature ever recorded on Antarctica was 3 degrees F.
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The average ice berg weighs 20,000,000 tons!
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The Niagara Falls moves upstream at an average rate of about 295ft a century!
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A waterfall known as The Devil's Kettle empties water into a hole and nobody knows where it ends up!
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The water of the Antarctica is so cold that nothing can rot there.
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