Due to gravitational effects, you weigh slightly less when the moon is directly overhead.
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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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More than 25% of the world's forests are in Siberia.
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10 of the tributaries flowing into the Amazon river are as big as the Mississippi river.
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Australia's Great Barrier Reef is 1,250 miles long!
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The city of Houston, Texas is built on a swamp and is slowly sinking!
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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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Even Antarctica has an area code. It's 672.
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