Top 5 Wild Geography Facts 🤯

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[00:00:00]The Yangtze River is so powerful it generates more electricity than every nuclear plant in the United States combined.

[00:00:06]This massive waterway cuts through China for nearly 4,000 miles, making it the third longest river on Earth and the longest in all of Asia.

[00:00:13]It carved out cliffs that tower higher than the Grand Canyon, and it supplies water to over 400 million people, which is more than the entire population of the United States.

[00:00:22]Right now as you're watching this, about 3,000 cargo ships are moving along the Yangtze, carrying everything from electronics to grain.

[00:00:30]If you ever visit, you could the Three Gorges and watch mountains rise straight up from the water like nature built its own skyscrapers.

[00:00:37]Here's what will keep you up tonight.

[00:00:39]The Three Gorges Dam holds back so much water that when it filled up, it actually slowed the rotation of the Earth.