The Caspian Sea is also classed as the world's largest lake.
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Check your map! The Pacific entrance of the Panama Canal is farther East than the Atlantic entrance.
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There's a lake under Antarctica that is 25 million years old called Lake Vostok.
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Check your map! Virginia extends farther west than West Virginia.
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The North Atlantic gets 2.5 centimetres (1in) wider every year.
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Europe is the only continent without a desert.
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More than 25% of the world's forests are in Siberia.
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The water of the Antarctica is so cold that nothing can rot there.
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