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 names of the continents all end with the same letter with which they start, excluding the North and South infront of AmericA.
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Mexico City is built on top of an underground resevoir!
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Even Antarctica has an area code. It's 672.
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Every person in the world can fit in Texas and be given over 1000 sq ft in which to live.
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The water of the Antarctica is so cold that nothing can rot there.
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The longest cave in the world is the 'Mammoth Cave System' in the USA at 560,000 mtrs deep!
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The North Atlantic gets 2.5 centimetres (1in) wider every year.
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