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The Great Barrier Reef in Australia is the biggest coral reef in the world. It is 2,600 km long and you can see it from space!
The deepest lake in the world is Lake Baikal in Siberia, Russia. It’s 1,637m deep. It's also the oldest lake in the world. It's more than 25 million years old!
The altitude of Mount Everest is of 8850m.
Crocodiles have lived on Earth for over 200 million years. Humans have lived on Earth for about 2 million years.
Polar bears are brilliant swimmers. They can swim up to 80 km away from land. They have webbed feet, like a duck. That's what helps them swim so far!
The biggest dinosaur was not the Tyrannosaurus Rex, it was the Giganotosaurus. It was about 14m long!
The world’s most venomous animal is the box jellyfish. It lives in the seas around Asia and Australia. It has enough venom to kill 26 people.
Recycling just one aluminum can save enough energy to operate a TV for 3 hours.
It takes glass one million years to decompose, which means it can be recycled an infinite amount of times.
The first real recycling program was introduced in New York City in the 1890s.