The North Atlantic gets 2.5 centimetres (1in) wider every year.
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Due to gravitational effects, you weigh slightly less when the moon is directly overhead.
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The Sahara desert expands at about 1km per month.
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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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Israel's Dead Sea is 1,312 feet below sea level.
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There are approximately three chickens for every human on Earth.
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There's a lake under Antarctica that is 25 million years old called Lake Vostok.
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