The water between India and Sri Lanka is only 3-30 feet deep and was purportedly passable on foot until 1480 AD when a cyclone moved some sand around.
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Europe is the only continent without a desert.
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The Niagara Falls moves upstream at an average rate of about 295ft a century!
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The Caspian Sea is also classed as the world's largest lake.
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It takes a drop of ocean water more than 1,000 years to circulate around the world.
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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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The average ice berg weighs 20,000,000 tons!
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Forest growth in the US has exceeded harvest since the 1940’s. Today, we have more trees than any time in the past 100 years.
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