There are approximately three chickens for every human on Earth.
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The city of Houston, Texas is built on a swamp and is slowly sinking!
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10 of the tributaries flowing into the Amazon river are as big as the Mississippi river.
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Forest fires move faster uphill than downhill.
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The average ice berg weighs 20,000,000 tons!
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An earthquake on Dec. 16, 1811 caused parts of the Mississippi River to flow backwards.
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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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The North Atlantic gets 2.5 centimetres (1in) wider every year.
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