The Amazon rainforest produces more than 20% the world's oxygen supply.
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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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Check your map! Virginia extends farther west than West Virginia.
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The state with the longest coastline in the Continental U.S. is Michigan.
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Connecticut and Rhode Island never ratified the 18th Amendment (Prohibition).
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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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Israel's Dead Sea is 1,312 feet below sea level.
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