Check your map! The Pacific entrance of the Panama Canal is farther East than the Atlantic entrance.
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The 'King Ranch' in Texas is bigger than the state of Rhode Island.
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10 of the tributaries flowing into the Amazon river are as big as the Mississippi river.
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In 1850, only 8% of the people in California were women.
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The water of the Antarctica is so cold that nothing can rot there.
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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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If Manhattan had the same population density as Alaska, there would only be 15 people living there.
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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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