I learned this today. The Panama Canal has reduced the journey from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean by 8,000 nautical miles (14,818 km), about 22 days. Before the Panama Canal was built in 1914, boats would have to either sail around the southernmost point of South America or up through the Bering Strait. […]
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I learned this today. Hurricanes and tornados are not the same thing. Hurricanes, typhoons. and cyclones always form over the sea. Incidentally, hurricanes, typhoons, and cyclones are all different names for the same thing, except they form in different places. Hurricanes are tropical storms that form over the North Atlantic Ocean and the Northeast Pacific.
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I learned this today. The Earth wouldn’t really have seasons if it wasn’t tilted on its axis, and that is thanks to the moon. The Earth is tilted at an angle of 23.5°. If the Earth was completely straight, we would have mild temperature changes as the Earth moved closer and farther away from the
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