Check your map! The Pacific entrance of the Panama Canal is farther East than the Atlantic entrance.
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Australia's Great Barrier Reef is 1,250 miles long!
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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 state with the longest coastline in the Continental U.S. is Michigan.
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It's still possible to see the division between East and West Germany due to different light bulbs.
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The city of Houston, Texas is built on a swamp and is slowly sinking!
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The warmest temperature ever recorded on Antarctica was 3 degrees F.
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