The North Atlantic gets 2.5 centimetres (1in) wider every year.
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Israel's Dead Sea is 1,312 feet below sea level.
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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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In 1850, only 8% of the people in California were women.
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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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10 of the tributaries flowing into the Amazon river are as big as the Mississippi river.
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Check your map! Virginia extends farther west than West Virginia.
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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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