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 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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More than 25% of the world's forests are in Siberia.
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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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Australia's Great Barrier Reef is 1,250 miles long!
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More than a dozen men have stood on the surface of the moon, but only three have been to Challenger Deep in the Marianas Trench, the deepest known spot in the ocean.
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Due to gravitational effects, you weigh slightly less when the moon is directly overhead.
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