Geographical Facts

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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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    The Niagara Falls moves upstream at an average rate of about 295ft a century!
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    The Eternal Fire
    The Eternal Fire
    A natural gas vent in Iraq known as The Eternal Fire has been burning continuously for over 4,000 years, and is mentioned by Herodotus, Plutarch, and in the Old Testament’s Book of Daniel.
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    The Sahara desert expands at about 1km per month.
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    The state of Florida is bigger than England!
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    The average ice berg weighs 20,000,000 tons!
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    There are more than 50,000 earthquakes throughout the world every year!
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    Due to gravitational effects, you weigh slightly less when the moon is directly overhead.
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