Check your map! The Pacific entrance of the Panama Canal is farther East than the Atlantic entrance.
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The Atlantic Ocean is saltier than the Pacific Ocean.
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The North Atlantic gets 2.5 centimetres (1in) wider every year.
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The Niagara Falls moves upstream at an average rate of about 295ft a century!
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The city of Houston, Texas is built on a swamp and is slowly sinking!
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One cubic mile of seawater contains about 50 pounds of gold.
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More than 25% of the world's forests are in Siberia.
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There are more than 50,000 earthquakes throughout the world every year!
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