stackyFACTSAntarctica features a massive ice sheet that is continuously sliding toward the sea. The ceremonial pole marker erected by scientists slowly inches away from the actual geographic bottom of the earth. Every single year, someone has to trudge out into the freezing void to move it back to the correct spot.
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