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• The warmest temperature ever recorded on Antarctica was 3 degrees F.
•  An earthquake on Dec. 16, 1811 caused parts of the Mississippi River to flow backwards.
• Israel's Dead Sea is 1,312 feet below sea level.
• In one day, a full grown redwood tree expels more than 2 tons of water through its leaves.
•  A volcano has enough power to shoot ash as high as 50 km into the atmosphere.
• Canada has more lakes than the rest of the world combined.
• In France, there's a place called Y.
• 203 million dollars is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
•  Singapore has only one train station.
• The three wealthiest families in the world have more assets than the combined wealth of the forty-eight poorest nations.
• The country of Brazil is named after the brazil nut.
• Switzerland has the highest per-capita consumption of soft drinks in the world.