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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One cubic mile of seawater contains about 50 pounds of gold.
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Louisiana is the only state that grows in land area every year (Due to alluvial deposits from the Mississippi River).
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A volcano has enough power to shoot ash as high as 50 km into the atmosphere.
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10 of the tributaries flowing into the Amazon river are as big as the Mississippi river.
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The average ice berg weighs 20,000,000 tons!
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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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If Manhattan had the same population density as Alaska, there would only be 15 people living there.
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