One cubic mile of seawater contains about 50 pounds of gold.
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Louisiana is the only state that grows in land area every year (Due to alluvial deposits from the Mississippi River).
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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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There are approximately three chickens for every human on Earth.
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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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Connecticut and Rhode Island never ratified the 18th Amendment (Prohibition).
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Forest growth in the US has exceeded harvest since the 1940’s. Today, we have more trees than any time in the past 100 years.
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