Geographical Facts

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    More than 25% of the world's forests are in Siberia.
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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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    There are approximately three chickens for every human on Earth.
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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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    Europe is the only continent without a desert.
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    The state with the longest coastline in the Continental U.S. is Michigan.
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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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