There are more than 50,000 earthquakes throughout the world every year!
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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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The North Atlantic gets 2.5 centimetres (1in) wider every year.
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The state of Florida is bigger than England!
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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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Check your map! The Pacific entrance of the Panama Canal is farther East than the Atlantic entrance.
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Israel's Dead Sea is 1,312 feet below sea level.
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The city of Houston, Texas is built on a swamp and is slowly sinking!
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