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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It's still possible to see the division between East and West Germany due to different light bulbs.
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The North Atlantic gets 2.5 centimetres (1in) wider every year.
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In 1850, only 8% of the people in California were women.
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The Niagara Falls moves upstream at an average rate of about 295ft a century!
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Forest fires move faster uphill than downhill.
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