Geographical Facts

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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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    More than a dozen men have stood on the surface of the moon, but only three have been to Challenger Deep in the Marianas Trench, the deepest known spot in the ocean.
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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 city of Houston, Texas is built on a swamp and is slowly sinking!
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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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    A volcano has enough power to shoot ash as high as 50 km into the atmosphere.
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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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