Every year, Alaska has about 5,000 earthquakes.
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Israel's Dead Sea is 1,312 feet below sea level.
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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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An earthquake on Dec. 16, 1811 caused parts of the Mississippi River to flow backwards.
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Connecticut and Rhode Island never ratified the 18th Amendment (Prohibition).
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One cubic mile of seawater contains about 50 pounds of gold.
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A waterfall known as The Devil's Kettle empties water into a hole and nobody knows where it ends up!
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10 of the tributaries flowing into the Amazon river are as big as the Mississippi river.
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