The Sahara desert expands at about 1km per month.
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The city of Houston, Texas is built on a swamp and is slowly sinking!
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The warmest temperature ever recorded on Antarctica was 3 degrees F.
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The Dallas/Ft. Worth airport is larger than New York City's Manhattan Island.
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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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Mexico City is built on top of an underground resevoir!
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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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