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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Connecticut and Rhode Island never ratified the 18th Amendment (Prohibition).
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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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If Antarctica's ice sheets melted, the worlds oceans would rise by 60 to 65 metres (200 - 210ft) - everywhere
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The warmest temperature ever recorded on Antarctica was 3 degrees F.
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Louisiana is the only state that grows in land area every year (Due to alluvial deposits from the Mississippi River).
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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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