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It takes a drop of ocean water more than 1,000 years to circulate around the world.
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A volcano has enough power to shoot ash as high as 50 km into the atmosphere.
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Even Antarctica has an area code. It's 672.
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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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Due to gravitational effects, you weigh slightly less when the moon is directly overhead.
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The Atlantic Ocean is saltier than the Pacific Ocean.
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The average ice berg weighs 20,000,000 tons!
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Forest fires move faster uphill than downhill.
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The Caspian Sea is also classed as the world's largest lake.
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More than 25% of the world's forests are in Siberia.
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The 'King Ranch' in Texas is bigger than the state of Rhode Island.
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Israel's Dead Sea is 1,312 feet below sea level.
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The Niagara Falls moves upstream at an average rate of about 295ft a century!
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Mexico City is built on top of an underground resevoir!
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There are more than 50,000 earthquakes throughout the world every year!
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Australia's Great Barrier Reef is 1,250 miles long!
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10 of the tributaries flowing into the Amazon river are as big as the Mississippi river.
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Louisiana is the only state that grows in land area every year (Due to alluvial deposits from the Mississippi River).
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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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