Check your map! Virginia extends farther west than West Virginia.
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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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More than 25% of the world's forests are in Siberia.
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Every year, Alaska has about 5,000 earthquakes.
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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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If Antarctica's ice sheets melted, the worlds oceans would rise by 60 to 65 metres (200 - 210ft) - everywhere
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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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