There's a lake under Antarctica that is 25 million years old called Lake Vostok.
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An earthquake on Dec. 16, 1811 caused parts of the Mississippi River to flow backwards.
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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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More than 25% of the world's forests are in Siberia.
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Israel's Dead Sea is 1,312 feet below sea level.
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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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The North Atlantic gets 2.5 centimetres (1in) wider every year.
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In 1850, only 8% of the people in California were women.
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