The Sahara desert expands at about 1km per month.
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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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10 of the tributaries flowing into the Amazon river are as big as the Mississippi river.
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The Dallas/Ft. Worth airport is larger than New York City's Manhattan Island.
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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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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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Israel's Dead Sea is 1,312 feet below sea level.
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