It's still possible to see the division between East and West Germany due to different light bulbs.
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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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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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Check your map! The Pacific entrance of the Panama Canal is farther East than the Atlantic entrance.
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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 Sahara desert expands at about 1km per month.
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Mexico City is built on top of an underground resevoir!
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