More than 25% of the world's forests are in Siberia.
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The city of Houston, Texas is built on a swamp and is slowly sinking!
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The water of the Antarctica is so cold that nothing can rot there.
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Connecticut and Rhode Island never ratified the 18th Amendment (Prohibition).
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There's a lake under Antarctica that is 25 million years old called Lake Vostok.
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The water between India and Sri Lanka is only 3-30 feet deep and was purportedly passable on foot until 1480 AD when a cyclone moved some sand around.
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The North Atlantic gets 2.5 centimetres (1in) wider every year.
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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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