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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It's still possible to see the division between East and West Germany due to different light bulbs.
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The North Atlantic gets 2.5 centimetres (1in) wider every year.
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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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A volcano has enough power to shoot ash as high as 50 km into the atmosphere.
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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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Check your map! Virginia extends farther west than West Virginia.
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There are approximately three chickens for every human on Earth.
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