The city of Houston, Texas is built on a swamp and is slowly sinking!
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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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Check your map! The Pacific entrance of the Panama Canal is farther East than the Atlantic entrance.
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In one day, a full grown redwood tree expels more than 2 tons of water through its leaves.
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Israel's Dead Sea is 1,312 feet below sea level.
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Every person in the world can fit in Texas and be given over 1000 sq ft in which to live.
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One cubic mile of seawater contains about 50 pounds of gold.
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