One cubic mile of seawater contains about 50 pounds of gold.
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The names of the continents all end with the same letter with which they start, excluding the North and South infront of AmericA.
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Check your map! Virginia extends farther west than West Virginia.
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A waterfall known as The Devil's Kettle empties water into a hole and nobody knows where it ends up!
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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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Europe is the only continent without a desert.
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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 Niagara Falls moves upstream at an average rate of about 295ft a century!
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