Check your map! The Pacific entrance of the Panama Canal is farther East than the Atlantic entrance.
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A volcano has enough power to shoot ash as high as 50 km into the atmosphere.
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It takes a drop of ocean water more than 1,000 years to circulate around the world.
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Forest fires move faster uphill than downhill.
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The water of the Antarctica is so cold that nothing can rot there.
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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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If Manhattan had the same population density as Alaska, there would only be 15 people living there.
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The state with the longest coastline in the Continental U.S. is Michigan.
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