The warmest temperature ever recorded on Antarctica was 3 degrees F.
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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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An earthquake on Dec. 16, 1811 caused parts of the Mississippi River to flow backwards.
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Israel's Dead Sea is 1,312 feet below sea level.
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The average ice berg weighs 20,000,000 tons!
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Europe is the only continent without a desert.
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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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More than 25% of the world's forests are in Siberia.
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