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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One cubic mile of seawater contains about 50 pounds of gold.
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A volcano has enough power to shoot ash as high as 50 km into the atmosphere.
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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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There's a lake under Antarctica that is 25 million years old called Lake Vostok.
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Connecticut and Rhode Island never ratified the 18th Amendment (Prohibition).
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The North Atlantic gets 2.5 centimetres (1in) wider every year.
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