Check your map! The Pacific entrance of the Panama Canal is farther East than the Atlantic entrance.
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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 Niagara Falls moves upstream at an average rate of about 295ft a century!
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More than 25% of the world's forests are in Siberia.
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Every year, Alaska has about 5,000 earthquakes.
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The state with the longest coastline in the Continental U.S. is Michigan.
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The city of Houston, Texas is built on a swamp and is slowly sinking!
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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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