Connecticut and Rhode Island never ratified the 18th Amendment (Prohibition).
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The North Atlantic gets 2.5 centimetres (1in) wider every year.
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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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One cubic mile of seawater contains about 50 pounds of gold.
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10 of the tributaries flowing into the Amazon river are as big as the Mississippi river.
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The warmest temperature ever recorded on Antarctica was 3 degrees F.
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If Antarctica's ice sheets melted, the worlds oceans would rise by 60 to 65 metres (200 - 210ft) - everywhere
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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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