A volcano has enough power to shoot ash as high as 50 km into the atmosphere.
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The state with the longest coastline in the Continental U.S. is Michigan.
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More than a dozen men have stood on the surface of the moon, but only three have been to Challenger Deep in the Marianas Trench, the deepest known spot in the ocean.
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Louisiana is the only state that grows in land area every year (Due to alluvial deposits from the Mississippi River).
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The warmest temperature ever recorded on Antarctica was 3 degrees F.
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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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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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Every year, Alaska has about 5,000 earthquakes.
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