The city of Houston, Texas is built on a swamp and is slowly sinking!
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The water between India and Sri Lanka is only 3-30 feet deep and was purportedly passable on foot until 1480 AD when a cyclone moved some sand around.
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In 1850, only 8% of the people in California were women.
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Forest fires move faster uphill than downhill.
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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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Every person in the world can fit in Texas and be given over 1000 sq ft in which to live.
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There are more than 50,000 earthquakes throughout the world every year!
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There's a lake under Antarctica that is 25 million years old called Lake Vostok.
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