Israel's Dead Sea is 1,312 feet below sea level.
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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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Due to gravitational effects, you weigh slightly less when the moon is directly overhead.
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Every year, Alaska has about 5,000 earthquakes.
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Europe is the only continent without a desert.
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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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Louisiana is the only state that grows in land area every year (Due to alluvial deposits from the Mississippi River).
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Every person in the world can fit in Texas and be given over 1000 sq ft in which to live.
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