Geographical Facts

    Geographical Facts

    There are 51 Geographical Facts!

    It takes a drop of ocean water more than 1,000 years to circulate around the world.
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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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    Mexico City is built on top of an underground resevoir!
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    More than 25% of the world's forests are in Siberia.
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    One cubic mile of seawater contains about 50 pounds of gold.
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    The Amazon rainforest produces more than 20% the world's oxygen supply.
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    The average ice berg weighs 20,000,000 tons!
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    The city of Houston, Texas is built on a swamp and is slowly sinking!
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    The Dallas/Ft. Worth airport is larger than New York City's Manhattan Island.
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    The longest cave in the world is the 'Mammoth Cave System' in the USA at 560,000 mtrs deep!
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    The Niagara Falls moves upstream at an average rate of about 295ft a century!
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    The state of Florida is bigger than England!
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    The state with the longest coastline in the Continental U.S. is Michigan.
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    The warmest temperature ever recorded on Antarctica was 3 degrees F.
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    There are more than 50,000 earthquakes throughout the world every year!
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