Check your map! The Pacific entrance of the Panama Canal is farther East than the Atlantic entrance.
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It's still possible to see the division between East and West Germany due to different light bulbs.
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The average ice berg weighs 20,000,000 tons!
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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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There's a lake under Antarctica that is 25 million years old called Lake Vostok.
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The 'King Ranch' in Texas is bigger than the state of Rhode Island.
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Connecticut and Rhode Island never ratified the 18th Amendment (Prohibition).
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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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