The Niagara Falls moves upstream at an average rate of about 295ft a century!
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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 state with the longest coastline in the Continental U.S. is Michigan.
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If Antarctica's ice sheets melted, the worlds oceans would rise by 60 to 65 metres (200 - 210ft) - everywhere
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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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It takes a drop of ocean water more than 1,000 years to circulate around the world.
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