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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In 1850, only 8% of the people in California were women.
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The average ice berg weighs 20,000,000 tons!
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Check your map! The Pacific entrance of the Panama Canal is farther East than the Atlantic entrance.
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Check your map! Virginia extends farther west than West Virginia.
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The Amazon rainforest produces more than 20% the world's oxygen supply.
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One cubic mile of seawater contains about 50 pounds of gold.
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It's still possible to see the division between East and West Germany due to different light bulbs.
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