The North Atlantic gets 2.5 centimetres (1in) wider every year.
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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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Europe is the only continent without a desert.
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The state of Florida is bigger than England!
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The city of Houston, Texas is built on a swamp and is slowly sinking!
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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's a lake under Antarctica that is 25 million years old called Lake Vostok.
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