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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Forest fires move faster uphill than downhill.
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The Atlantic Ocean is saltier than the Pacific Ocean.
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There's a lake under Antarctica that is 25 million years old called Lake Vostok.
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Europe is the only continent without a desert.
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In 1850, only 8% of the people in California were women.
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Forest growth in the US has exceeded harvest since the 1940’s. Today, we have more trees than any time in the past 100 years.
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