Geographical Facts

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    The city of Houston, Texas is built on a swamp and is slowly sinking!
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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 North Atlantic gets 2.5 centimetres (1in) wider every year.
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    The 'King Ranch' in Texas is bigger than the state of Rhode Island.
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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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    Louisiana is the only state that grows in land area every year (Due to alluvial deposits from the Mississippi River).
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    Connecticut and Rhode Island never ratified the 18th Amendment (Prohibition).
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