Check your map! The Pacific entrance of the Panama Canal is farther East than the Atlantic entrance.
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Even Antarctica has an area code. It's 672.
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The average ice berg weighs 20,000,000 tons!
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Australia's Great Barrier Reef is 1,250 miles long!
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Forest fires move faster uphill than downhill.
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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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It's still possible to see the division between East and West Germany due to different light bulbs.
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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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