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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 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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    Every person in the world can fit in Texas and be given over 1000 sq ft in which to live.
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    The state with the longest coastline in the Continental U.S. is Michigan.
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    An earthquake on Dec. 16, 1811 caused parts of the Mississippi River to flow backwards.
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    The percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28%. The percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%.
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    The Mysterious 200 ft Circular Baltic Sea Anomaly
    In 2011, a 200 ft circular anomaly in the Baltic Sea that has unusual characteristics and almost perfectly etched curvatures was discovered. To this day, its origin remains unknown.
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    10 of the tributaries flowing into the Amazon river are as big as the Mississippi river.
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