Forest fires move faster uphill than downhill.
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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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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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Every person in the world can fit in Texas and be given over 1000 sq ft in which to live.
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There are approximately three chickens for every human on Earth.
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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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Australia's Great Barrier Reef is 1,250 miles long!
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There are more than 50,000 earthquakes throughout the world every year!
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