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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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    In 1850, only 8% of the people in California were women.
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    The Eternal Fire
    The Eternal Fire
    A natural gas vent in Iraq known as The Eternal Fire has been burning continuously for over 4,000 years, and is mentioned by Herodotus, Plutarch, and in the Old Testament’s Book of Daniel.
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    Europe is the only continent without a desert.
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    The Atlantic Ocean is saltier than the Pacific Ocean.
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    The Sahara desert expands at about 1km per month.
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    Forest fires move faster uphill than downhill.
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    The average ice berg weighs 20,000,000 tons!
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