The names of the continents all end with the same letter with which they start, excluding the North and South infront of AmericA.
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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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There are more than 50,000 earthquakes throughout the world every year!
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The state with the longest coastline in the Continental U.S. is Michigan.
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The Sahara desert expands at about 1km per month.
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Due to gravitational effects, you weigh slightly less when the moon is directly overhead.
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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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