Check your map! The Pacific entrance of the Panama Canal is farther East than the Atlantic entrance.
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The water of the Antarctica is so cold that nothing can rot there.
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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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If Manhattan had the same population density as Alaska, there would only be 15 people living there.
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Europe is the only continent without a desert.
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Every year, Alaska has about 5,000 earthquakes.
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The North Atlantic gets 2.5 centimetres (1in) wider every year.
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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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