One cubic mile of seawater contains about 50 pounds of gold.
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The Niagara Falls moves upstream at an average rate of about 295ft a century!
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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 state of Florida is bigger than England!
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The water of the Antarctica is so cold that nothing can rot there.
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The water between India and Sri Lanka is only 3-30 feet deep and was purportedly passable on foot until 1480 AD when a cyclone moved some sand around.
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The 'King Ranch' in Texas is bigger than the state of Rhode Island.
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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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