Check your map! The Pacific entrance of the Panama Canal is farther East than the Atlantic entrance.
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10 of the tributaries flowing into the Amazon river are as big as the Mississippi river.
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The water of the Antarctica is so cold that nothing can rot there.
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An earthquake on Dec. 16, 1811 caused parts of the Mississippi River to flow backwards.
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The average ice berg weighs 20,000,000 tons!
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Check your map! Virginia extends farther west than West Virginia.
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There are approximately three chickens for every human on Earth.
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