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 average ice berg weighs 20,000,000 tons!
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The warmest temperature ever recorded on Antarctica was 3 degrees F.
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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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Due to gravitational effects, you weigh slightly less when the moon is directly overhead.
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The names of the continents all end with the same letter with which they start, excluding the North and South infront of AmericA.
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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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The city of Houston, Texas is built on a swamp and is slowly sinking!
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