Even Antarctica has an area code. It's 672.
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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 Sahara desert expands at about 1km per month.
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The Dallas/Ft. Worth airport is larger than New York City's Manhattan Island.
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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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Check your map! The Pacific entrance of the Panama Canal is farther East than the Atlantic entrance.
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The average ice berg weighs 20,000,000 tons!
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