There are more than 50,000 earthquakes throughout the world every year!
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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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A volcano has enough power to shoot ash as high as 50 km into the atmosphere.
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The average ice berg weighs 20,000,000 tons!
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The warmest temperature ever recorded on Antarctica was 3 degrees F.
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It takes a drop of ocean water more than 1,000 years to circulate around the world.
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The state with the longest coastline in the Continental U.S. is Michigan.
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An earthquake on Dec. 16, 1811 caused parts of the Mississippi River to flow backwards.
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