Geographical Facts

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    10 of the tributaries flowing into the Amazon river are as big as the Mississippi river.
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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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    Lituya Bay Megatsunami
    Lituya Bay Megatsunami
    The tallest wave in history was the 1958 Lituya Bay megatsunami, reaching a height of 1,720 feet (524 meters).
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    Israel's Dead Sea is 1,312 feet below sea level.
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    There are more than 50,000 earthquakes throughout the world every year!
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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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    The Eternal Fire
    The Eternal Fire
    A natural gas vent in Iraq known as The Eternal Fire has been burning continuously for over 4,000 years, and is mentioned by Herodotus, Plutarch, and in the Old Testament’s Book of Daniel.
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