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One days worth of water flowing out of the Amazon River is equal to 12 years of water usage by the entire city of New York. The river actually accounts for 20% of the world's fresh water
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The Amazon is packed with so much biodiversity that a single bush can potentially have more species of ants than the British Isles…and that's just ants.
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The Amazon got its name when female warriors attacked Spanish explorer Francisco Orellana. He named the river Rio Amazonas as he compared the female warriors to the Amazons of Greek mythology
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The Amazon is home to over 3,000 fruits. By comparison, western cultures are known to eat around 200
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The rainforest is home to more than half of the world's 10 million species of animals
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