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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Louisiana is the only state that grows in land area every year (Due to alluvial deposits from the Mississippi River).
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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 average ice berg weighs 20,000,000 tons!
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Mexico City is built on top of an underground resevoir!
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There are more than 50,000 earthquakes throughout the world every year!
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Europe is the only continent without a desert.
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