Geographical Facts

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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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    There are more than 50,000 earthquakes throughout the world every year!
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    The Niagara Falls moves upstream at an average rate of about 295ft a century!
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    The Amazon rainforest produces more than 20% the world's oxygen supply.
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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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    The longest cave in the world is the 'Mammoth Cave System' in the USA at 560,000 mtrs deep!
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    The average ice berg weighs 20,000,000 tons!
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    One cubic mile of seawater contains about 50 pounds of gold.
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