The Sahara desert expands at about 1km per month.
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Due to gravitational effects, you weigh slightly less when the moon is directly overhead.
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Europe is the only continent without a desert.
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A waterfall known as The Devil's Kettle empties water into a hole and nobody knows where it ends up!
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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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The Dallas/Ft. Worth airport is larger than New York City's Manhattan Island.
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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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