Even Antarctica has an area code. It's 672.
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The city of Houston, Texas is built on a swamp and is slowly sinking!
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The Amazon rainforest produces more than 20% the world's oxygen supply.
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The Sahara desert expands at about 1km per month.
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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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In 1850, only 8% of the people in California were women.
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More than a dozen men have stood on the surface of the moon, but only three have been to Challenger Deep in the Marianas Trench, the deepest known spot in the ocean.
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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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