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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Israel's Dead Sea is 1,312 feet below sea level.
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Europe is the only continent without a desert.
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The city of Houston, Texas is built on a swamp and is slowly sinking!
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Connecticut and Rhode Island never ratified the 18th Amendment (Prohibition).
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The average ice berg weighs 20,000,000 tons!
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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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A waterfall known as The Devil's Kettle empties water into a hole and nobody knows where it ends up!
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