In one day, a full grown redwood tree expels more than 2 tons of water through its leaves.
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10 of the tributaries flowing into the Amazon river are as big as the Mississippi river.
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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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Mexico City is built on top of an underground resevoir!
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The Amazon rainforest produces more than 20% the world's oxygen supply.
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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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The state of Florida is bigger than England!
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The warmest temperature ever recorded on Antarctica was 3 degrees F.
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