The North Atlantic gets 2.5 centimetres (1in) wider every year.
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Mexico City is built on top of an underground resevoir!
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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 water of the Antarctica is so cold that nothing can rot there.
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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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Europe is the only continent without a desert.
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Forest fires move faster uphill than downhill.
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In 1850, only 8% of the people in California were women.
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