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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Forest fires move faster uphill than downhill.
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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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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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