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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The warmest temperature ever recorded on Antarctica was 3 degrees F.
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The longest cave in the world is the 'Mammoth Cave System' in the USA at 560,000 mtrs deep!
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Forest fires move faster uphill than downhill.
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The water of the Antarctica is so cold that nothing can rot there.
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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 Sahara desert expands at about 1km per month.
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Connecticut and Rhode Island never ratified the 18th Amendment (Prohibition).
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