The water between India and Sri Lanka is only 3-30 feet deep and was purportedly passable on foot until 1480 AD when a cyclone moved some sand around.
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The 'King Ranch' in Texas is bigger than the state of Rhode Island.
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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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Check your map! The Pacific entrance of the Panama Canal is farther East than the Atlantic entrance.
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The Niagara Falls moves upstream at an average rate of about 295ft a century!
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A volcano has enough power to shoot ash as high as 50 km into the atmosphere.
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Forest fires move faster uphill than downhill.
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There are approximately three chickens for every human on Earth.
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