Every year, Alaska has about 5,000 earthquakes.
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Israel's Dead Sea is 1,312 feet below sea level.
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Connecticut and Rhode Island never ratified the 18th Amendment (Prohibition).
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One cubic mile of seawater contains about 50 pounds of gold.
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Check your map! The Pacific entrance of the Panama Canal is farther East than the Atlantic entrance.
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The state with the longest coastline in the Continental U.S. is Michigan.
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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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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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