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 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 Sahara desert expands at about 1km per month.
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The state of Florida is bigger than England!
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A waterfall known as The Devil's Kettle empties water into a hole and nobody knows where it ends up!
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A volcano has enough power to shoot ash as high as 50 km into the atmosphere.
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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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