10 of the tributaries flowing into the Amazon river are as big as the Mississippi river.
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Every year, Alaska has about 5,000 earthquakes.
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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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It's still possible to see the division between East and West Germany due to different light bulbs.
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Europe is the only continent without a desert.
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Israel's Dead Sea is 1,312 feet below sea level.
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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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Forest growth in the US has exceeded harvest since the 1940’s. Today, we have more trees than any time in the past 100 years.
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