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Niagara falls were formed when glaciers receded at the end of the Wisconsin glaciation (the last ice age), and water from the newly formed Great Lakes carved a path through the Niagara Escarpment en route to the Atlantic Ocean.

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It is called niagara falls because it is on the niagara river

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It was named after the Native Indian thunder god because it sounds like thunder

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because it is 600,000gallons of water

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Niagra falls is in Ontario


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