Check your map! The Pacific entrance of the Panama Canal is farther East than the Atlantic entrance.
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The city of Houston, Texas is built on a swamp and is slowly sinking!
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The North Atlantic gets 2.5 centimetres (1in) wider every year.
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If Manhattan had the same population density as Alaska, there would only be 15 people living there.
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More than 25% of the world's forests are in Siberia.
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It's still possible to see the division between East and West Germany due to different light bulbs.
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The Dallas/Ft. Worth airport is larger than New York City's Manhattan Island.
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Connecticut and Rhode Island never ratified the 18th Amendment (Prohibition).
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