Check your map! The Pacific entrance of the Panama Canal is farther East than the Atlantic entrance.
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The 'King Ranch' in Texas is bigger than the state of Rhode Island.
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Mexico City is built on top of an underground resevoir!
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Forest fires move faster uphill than downhill.
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10 of the tributaries flowing into the Amazon river are as big as the Mississippi river.
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One cubic mile of seawater contains about 50 pounds of gold.
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The water of the Antarctica is so cold that nothing can rot there.
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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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