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's a lake under Antarctica that is 25 million years old called Lake Vostok.
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The 'King Ranch' in Texas is bigger than the state of Rhode Island.
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One cubic mile of seawater contains about 50 pounds of gold.
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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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The average ice berg weighs 20,000,000 tons!
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