The water of the Antarctica is so cold that nothing can rot there.
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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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If Antarctica's ice sheets melted, the worlds oceans would rise by 60 to 65 metres (200 - 210ft) - everywhere
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Europe is the only continent without a desert.
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The Sahara desert expands at about 1km per month.
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There's a lake under Antarctica that is 25 million years old called Lake Vostok.
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A volcano has enough power to shoot ash as high as 50 km into the atmosphere.
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Due to gravitational effects, you weigh slightly less when the moon is directly overhead.
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