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 water of the Antarctica is so cold that nothing can rot there.
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There are approximately three chickens for every human on Earth.
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If Manhattan had the same population density as Alaska, there would only be 15 people living there.
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The city of Houston, Texas is built on a swamp and is slowly sinking!
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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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Australia's Great Barrier Reef is 1,250 miles long!
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10 of the tributaries flowing into the Amazon river are as big as the Mississippi river.
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