The North Atlantic gets 2.5 centimetres (1in) wider every year.
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The state with the longest coastline in the Continental U.S. is Michigan.
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The Sahara desert expands at about 1km per month.
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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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Europe is the only continent without a desert.
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An earthquake on Dec. 16, 1811 caused parts of the Mississippi River to flow backwards.
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The Dallas/Ft. Worth airport is larger than New York City's Manhattan Island.
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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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