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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There are more than 50,000 earthquakes throughout the world every year!
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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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If Antarctica's ice sheets melted, the worlds oceans would rise by 60 to 65 metres (200 - 210ft) - everywhere
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There are approximately three chickens for every human on Earth.
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Israel's Dead Sea is 1,312 feet below sea level.
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The average ice berg weighs 20,000,000 tons!
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The Atlantic Ocean is saltier than the Pacific Ocean.
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