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The oceans contain about 180 times as much gold as has ever been mined.

Canada has the longest coastline of any nation.

Glaciers cover about ten percent of the world’s land area.

The earth rotates more slowly in the spring than in the fall.

The Pacific side of the Panama Canal is twenty miles east of the Atlantic side.

IThe sun is not visible for 186 days of the year at the north pole.

February 1865 is the only month in history not to have a full moon.

Only 2.8% of the earth's water is fresh, and most of that is in polar ice and glaciers.

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