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Large parts of the Sahara supported grasslands, lakes and wildlife during the African Humid Period, broadly about 11,000 to 5,000 years ago. It was a varied wetter landscape, not one continuous tropical rainforest.
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France has the most time zones when its overseas territories are included, commonly counted as 12 standard UTC offsets. Totals of 13 require an explanation of seasonal clock changes or Antarctic territorial claims.
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Canada has more than half of the lakes in the HydroLAKES inventory, whose minimum mapped lake area is 10 hectares. That does not establish that Canada contains most of every pond and lake on Earth.