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7 Nov 2009
It snows more at the Grand Canyon than it does in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
The Winter Olympics have never been hosted in a country in the Southern Hemisphere.
Major rivers such as the Colorado and the Yellowstone together carry about 20 million acre-feet of water annually (an acre-foot is one acre covered by one foot of water).
Our Sun is 865,280 miles across. The Earth is 7962 miles across.
Use of less fertilizer at precisely the right times can cut costs by up to 17 percent for farmers in developing countries and reduce damage to the environment.
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