Check your map! The Pacific entrance of the Panama Canal is farther East than the Atlantic entrance.
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The Atlantic Ocean is saltier than the Pacific Ocean.
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The warmest temperature ever recorded on Antarctica was 3 degrees F.
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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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Mexico City is built on top of an underground resevoir!
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Even Antarctica has an area code. It's 672.
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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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The water of the Antarctica is so cold that nothing can rot there.
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