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    A waterfall known as The Devil's Kettle empties water into a hole and nobody knows where it ends up!
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    The percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28%. The percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%.
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    Sheikh Hamad Had His Name Carved into Island
    Sheikh Hamad, billionaire and royal family member in the United Arab Emirates, had a huge carving of his name that's even visible from space etched into a private island.
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    There's a lake under Antarctica that is 25 million years old called Lake Vostok.
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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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    Due to gravitational effects, you weigh slightly less when the moon is directly overhead.
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    An earthquake on Dec. 16, 1811 caused parts of the Mississippi River to flow backwards.
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    More than 25% of the world's forests are in Siberia.
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