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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Connecticut and Rhode Island never ratified the 18th Amendment (Prohibition).
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10 of the tributaries flowing into the Amazon river are as big as the Mississippi river.
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The average ice berg weighs 20,000,000 tons!
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The Amazon rainforest produces more than 20% the world's oxygen supply.
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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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There are approximately three chickens for every human on Earth.
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