Even Antarctica has an area code. It's 672.
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Mexico City is built on top of an underground resevoir!
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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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The Amazon rainforest produces more than 20% the world's oxygen supply.
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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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Israel's Dead Sea is 1,312 feet below sea level.
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The 'King Ranch' in Texas is bigger than the state of Rhode Island.
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