Check your map! The Pacific entrance of the Panama Canal is farther East than the Atlantic entrance.
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Longest officially recognized place name is Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu.
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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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More than 25% of the world's forests are in Siberia.
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The Atlantic Ocean is saltier than the Pacific Ocean.
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10 of the tributaries flowing into the Amazon river are as big as the Mississippi river.
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The city of Houston, Texas is built on a swamp and is slowly sinking!
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More than a dozen men have stood on the surface of the moon, but only three have been to Challenger Deep in the Marianas Trench, the deepest known spot in the ocean.
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