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    The city of Houston, Texas is built on a swamp and is slowly sinking!
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    Lituya Bay Megatsunami
    Lituya Bay Megatsunami
    The tallest wave in history was the 1958 Lituya Bay megatsunami, reaching a height of 1,720 feet (524 meters).
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    Louisiana is the only state that grows in land area every year (Due to alluvial deposits from the Mississippi River).
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    More than 25% of the world's forests are in Siberia.
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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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    Every year, Alaska has about 5,000 earthquakes.
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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 average ice berg weighs 20,000,000 tons!
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