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    Louisiana is the only state that grows in land area every year (Due to alluvial deposits from the Mississippi River).
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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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    The average ice berg weighs 20,000,000 tons!
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    A volcano has enough power to shoot ash as high as 50 km into the atmosphere.
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    There's a lake under Antarctica that is 25 million years old called Lake Vostok.
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    Mexico City is built on top of an underground resevoir!
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    Sheikh Hamad Had His Name Carved into Island
    Sheikh Hamad, billionaire and royal family member in the United Arab Emirates, had a huge carving of his name that's even visible from space etched into a private island.
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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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