Check your map! The Pacific entrance of the Panama Canal is farther East than the Atlantic entrance.
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Even Antarctica has an area code. It's 672.
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More than a dozen men have stood on the surface of the moon, but only three have been to Challenger Deep in the Marianas Trench, the deepest known spot in the ocean.
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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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A waterfall known as The Devil's Kettle empties water into a hole and nobody knows where it ends up!
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The North Atlantic gets 2.5 centimetres (1in) wider every year.
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The water of the Antarctica is so cold that nothing can rot there.
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The warmest temperature ever recorded on Antarctica was 3 degrees F.
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