The names of the continents all end with the same letter with which they start, excluding the North and South infront of AmericA.
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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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Israel's Dead Sea is 1,312 feet below sea level.
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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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If Antarctica's ice sheets melted, the worlds oceans would rise by 60 to 65 metres (200 - 210ft) - everywhere
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In one day, a full grown redwood tree expels more than 2 tons of water through its leaves.
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The water of the Antarctica is so cold that nothing can rot there.
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The Sahara desert expands at about 1km per month.
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