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Amazon
The Amazon rainforest produces more than 20% the world's oxygen supply.
TheAmazon River pushes so much water into the Atlantic Ocean that, more than one hundred miles at sea off the mouth of the river, one can dip fresh water out of the ocean. The volume of water in the Amazon river is greater than the next eight largest rivers in the world combined and three times the flow of all rivers in the United States .

Antarctica
Antarctica is the only land on our planet that is not owned by any
Country. Ninety percent of the world's ice covers Antarctica . This
Ice also represents seventy percent of all the fresh water in the
World. As strange as it sounds, however, Antarctica is essentially a
Desert. The average yearly total precipitation is about two inches
Although covered with ice (all but 0.4% of it, I.e.), Antarctica is the
Driest place on the planet, with an absolute humidity lower than the
Gobi desert.

Brazil
Brazil got its name from the nut, not the other way around.

Canada
Canada has more lakes than the rest of the world combined. Canada is an Indian word meaning ' Big Village ..'

Chicago
Next to Warsaw , Chicago has the largest Polish population in the world.

Detroit
Woodward Avenue in Detroit , Michigan , carries the designation M-1, so named because it was the first paved road any where.

Damascus , Syria
Damascus, Syria, was flourishing a couple of thousand years before Rome was founded in 753 BC, making it the oldest continuously inhabited city in existence.

Istanbul , Turkey
Istanbul, Turkey, is the only city in the world located on two
Continents.

Ohio
There are no natural lakes in the state of Ohio , every one is manmade.

Pitcairn Island
The smallest island with country status is Pitcairn in Polynesia , at
Just 1.75 sq. Miles(4,53 sq. Km).

Rome
The first city to reach a population of 1 million people was Rome ,
Italy in 133 B.C. There is a city called Rome on every continent.

Siberia
Siberia contains more than 25% of the world's forests

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