Louisiana is the only state that grows in land area every year (Due to alluvial deposits from the Mississippi River).
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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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The Dallas/Ft. Worth airport is larger than New York City's Manhattan Island.
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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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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 Sahara desert expands at about 1km per month.
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Forest growth in the US has exceeded harvest since the 1940’s. Today, we have more trees than any time in the past 100 years.
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