The North Atlantic gets 2.5 centimetres (1in) wider every year.
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The Atlantic Ocean is saltier than the Pacific Ocean.
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Connecticut and Rhode Island never ratified the 18th Amendment (Prohibition).
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The city of Houston, Texas is built on a swamp and is slowly sinking!
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Australia's Great Barrier Reef is 1,250 miles long!
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The water of the Antarctica is so cold that nothing can rot there.
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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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The water between India and Sri Lanka is only 3-30 feet deep and was purportedly passable on foot until 1480 AD when a cyclone moved some sand around.
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