A volcano has enough power to shoot ash as high as 50 km into the atmosphere.
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The water of the Antarctica is so cold that nothing can rot there.
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More than 25% of the world's forests are in Siberia.
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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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Every year, Alaska has about 5,000 earthquakes.
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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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Connecticut and Rhode Island never ratified the 18th Amendment (Prohibition).
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The state with the longest coastline in the Continental U.S. is Michigan.
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