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    The North Atlantic gets 2.5 centimetres (1in) wider every year.
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    The percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28%. The percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%.
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    There's a lake under Antarctica that is 25 million years old called Lake Vostok.
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    The Mysterious 200 ft Circular Baltic Sea Anomaly
    In 2011, a 200 ft circular anomaly in the Baltic Sea that has unusual characteristics and almost perfectly etched curvatures was discovered. To this day, its origin remains unknown.
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    More than a dozen men have stood on the surface of the moon, but only three have been to Challenger Deep in the Marianas Trench, the deepest known spot in the ocean.
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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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    Check your map! The Pacific entrance of the Panama Canal is farther East than the Atlantic entrance.
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    The Niagara Falls moves upstream at an average rate of about 295ft a century!
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