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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More than a dozen men have stood on the surface of the moon, but only three have been to Challenger Deep in the Marianas Trench, the deepest known spot in the ocean.
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Europe is the only continent without a desert.
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Israel's Dead Sea is 1,312 feet below sea level.
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More than 25% of the world's forests are in Siberia.
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The Atlantic Ocean is saltier than the Pacific Ocean.
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If Manhattan had the same population density as Alaska, there would only be 15 people living there.
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