Israel's Dead Sea is 1,312 feet below sea level.
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A volcano has enough power to shoot ash as high as 50 km into the atmosphere.
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The Niagara Falls moves upstream at an average rate of about 295ft a century!
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An earthquake on Dec. 16, 1811 caused parts of the Mississippi River to flow backwards.
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The 'King Ranch' in Texas is bigger than the state of Rhode Island.
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Check your map! The Pacific entrance of the Panama Canal is farther East than the Atlantic entrance.
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There's a lake under Antarctica that is 25 million years old called Lake Vostok.
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The water of the Antarctica is so cold that nothing can rot there.
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