Geographical Facts

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    The city of Houston, Texas is built on a swamp and is slowly sinking!
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    Even Antarctica has an area code. It's 672.
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    The Amazon rainforest produces more than 20% the world's oxygen supply.
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    Forest growth in the US has exceeded harvest since the 1940’s. Today, we have more trees than any time in the past 100 years.
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    The Mysterious 200 ft Circular Baltic Sea Anomaly
    In 2011, a 200 ft circular anomaly in the Baltic Sea that has unusual characteristics and almost perfectly etched curvatures was discovered. To this day, its origin remains unknown.
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    There are more than 50,000 earthquakes throughout the world every year!
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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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    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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