The Sahara desert expands at about 1km per month.
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An earthquake on Dec. 16, 1811 caused parts of the Mississippi River to flow backwards.
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The longest cave in the world is the 'Mammoth Cave System' in the USA at 560,000 mtrs deep!
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10 of the tributaries flowing into the Amazon river are as big as the Mississippi river.
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The names of the continents all end with the same letter with which they start, excluding the North and South infront of AmericA.
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Even Antarctica has an area code. It's 672.
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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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A volcano has enough power to shoot ash as high as 50 km into the atmosphere.
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