Check your map! The Pacific entrance of the Panama Canal is farther East than the Atlantic entrance.
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There are more than 50,000 earthquakes throughout the world every year!
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In 1850, only 8% of the people in California were women.
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Even Antarctica has an area code. It's 672.
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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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Mexico City is built on top of an underground resevoir!
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If Antarctica's ice sheets melted, the worlds oceans would rise by 60 to 65 metres (200 - 210ft) - everywhere
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