Geographical Facts

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    10 of the tributaries flowing into the Amazon river are as big as the Mississippi river.
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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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    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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    The Sahara desert expands at about 1km per month.
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    Fairy Bridge
    Fairy Bridge
    The largest natural bridge on Earth, the 'Fairy Bridge', was virtually unknown to the rest of the world until it was observed on Google Earth.
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    It takes a drop of ocean water more than 1,000 years to circulate around the world.
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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 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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