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The Tree of Ténéré was once considered to be the most remote tree in the world. Located in the middle of the Sahara desert in Niger, it was hundreds of kilometers away from the nearest other tree. Somehow, a drunk truck driver managed to hit it and knock it down in 1973.
977
In Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia, the temperature almost never falls below 70°F (21°C).
978
Bhutan has diplomatic relations with only 54 other countries. Andorra and Eswatini are among the 54. The United States, China, and France are not.
979
If you see a platypus, give it space. Male platypuses have a venom-delivering spur on their hind legs. Though not lethal to humans, its effects have been described as "worse than being struck by shrapnel". Painful in itself, the venom also amplifies the body's ability to feel pain from other causes for weeks or months into the future.
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Quizmaster
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May 6, 2024
Credit @j3n for #978.
Neodymium
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May 16, 2024
0.5% of Uzbekistan is Korean due to a historical forced migration. The country is 5,000km (3,000 miles) from the Koreas.
McKenzieFam
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May 17, 2024
how long ago?
Xtrordinary
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May 17, 2024
soviet union times
Neodymium
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May 18, 2024
37
Neodymium
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May 16, 2024
If the world had a per capita energy usage equal to the USA, world energy production would need to increase by over 2.5x.
Interest1ngFacts
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May 16, 2024
In 2015, there was a massive snowstorm pileup in Michigan involving over 100 vehicles. Several vehicles caught fire. Oh, and if I remember right, there was a semi truck full of fireworks involved. 😬
McKenzieFam
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May 17, 2024
Charles III has just unveiled his first official portrait since his coronation. It's very....red.
Neodymium
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Level 59
May 17, 2024
imagine a color blind guy wondering why they portrayed him so environmentally friendly and green, butterfly and all
McKenzieFam
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May 18, 2024
Lol that's a good one.

I had thought maybe if you looked at it through a pair of red goggles you might see a hidden message in blue underneath, like this.

Neodymium
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Level 59
May 23, 2024
https://www.color-blindness.com/coblis-color-blindness-simulator/

It would look a weird tree yellow

Fianchetto
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May 17, 2024
I was under the impression New Caledonia was chill until today
Interest1ngFacts
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Level 18
May 17, 2024
define "chill"
Fianchetto
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Level 75
May 17, 2024
not rioting
Neodymium
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May 17, 2024
its cuz they wanted to allow ppl that have residing there for 10 years to vote, which would allow more european french immigrants, rather than what was agreed on in 1998 (voting resitricted to pre 1998 residents and their descendants)
McKenzieFam
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May 17, 2024
Chill = no shooting, fires, explosions, or just angry mobs in general
Interest1ngFacts
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Level 18
May 18, 2024
The New Caledonia Wikipedia page just got updated 15 minutes ago apparently
Neodymium
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May 20, 2024
Currently, 1/5 voters cannot vote due to the 1990 something rule. The reforms would make this down to like 1/10, allow much more european voters.
Interest1ngFacts
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May 21, 2024
Australia and New Zealand have started evacuating tourists
McKenzieFam
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Level 65
May 21, 2024
The first flight just landed in Auckland
Neodymium
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Level 59
May 22, 2024
evacuations??? is this much more serious than just riots and stuff
Interest1ngFacts
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May 22, 2024
Yeah, it’s total chaos and roadblocks and arson and looting and stuff. 6 people have died
Neodymium
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May 22, 2024
smh rioters always attack the wrong thing. back in my day we took the winter palace! ahh it feels like '17 was just last year
Interest1ngFacts
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May 24, 2024
i remember one time out of protest over this mean substitute lunch lady, me and over 35 other third graders stormed the blacktop with chants calling for her swift dismissal from the faculty (our chant was much more simplistic than that though)
DawnX
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May 19, 2024
Haiti 2: Electric Boogaloo
Interest1ngFacts
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May 18, 2024
The Norden bombsight was one of the most closely guarded secrets of the U.S. military during WWII. Invented by Carl Norden, it was a mechanical analog computer made up of gyros, motors, gears, mirrors, levels, and a telescope. It was used to determine the exact moment bombs had to be dropped to hit the target accurately. On later versions of the B-17G, the Norden bombsight would actually fly the plane through the bomb run while coupled to the airplane's controls. It was claimed to be accurate enough to hit a 100 foot circle from an altitude of 21,000 feet. In actual combat conditions, though, its accuracy was usually less than that.
Interest1ngFacts
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Level 18
May 20, 2024
Sounds like the Iranian president died in a helicopter crash today
McKenzieFam
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May 20, 2024
Huh that's kinda sad. Wander if it was just a crash or if this is Israel's idea of a retaliation
Interest1ngFacts
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May 20, 2024
"It was an accident, we had nothing to do with it" -CIA
Neodymium
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May 23, 2024
"The accident that will happen in Iran was not our fault" - CIA
Interest1ngFacts
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May 20, 2024
But it did disappear out of a formation so it sounds like it could've been mech failure
DawnX
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May 20, 2024
"Kinda Sad" I'm assuming youre oblivious to the atrocities he committed during his life. He was such a monster, people are celebrating his death with fireworks
Interest1ngFacts
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May 20, 2024
i'm guessing Kenzie just meant that the death was a little sad because death is almost always sad. he definitely was a terrible guy, though. still, we should steer clear of the politics
McKenzieFam
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May 20, 2024
I meant sad like someone died not sad like he was a brilliant dude
JetPunker180
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May 21, 2024
I don't think a man who informs his enemy about an upcoming attack 2 days before would be so big threat to Israel that Israel would opt to kill him
DawnX
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May 20, 2024
Fact 977 needs to be changed soon as Indonesia is officially changing their capital in August
Interest1ngFacts
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Level 18
May 20, 2024
Also, that spelling typo in fact 969 was never fixed
PastaPeople
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May 21, 2024
In the 19th century, gay people communicated in the language Polari to disguise themselves from hostile outsiders
JetPunker180
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May 22, 2024
BEL 212 The helicopter model in which Raeesi was travelling has undergone 432 accidents since it's manufacture in which about 630 people have been died.
Interest1ngFacts
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May 22, 2024
WOW
PastaPeople
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May 22, 2024
The Basque language, spoken in parts of Spain and France are commonly written in this font
DawnX
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May 23, 2024
In July 1946 after WWII, Hungary had an Inflation Rate of 41.900.000.000.000.000% or 41.9 quadrillion percent, corresponding to double the price every 15.3 hours
Neodymium
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May 23, 2024
Richest country
lexpusloskie
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May 31, 2024
#614 covered how much the bills were worth
JohnnyYeet
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May 24, 2024
If you slap a table, there is theoretically a 1/(5.2 * 10^61) chance all the molecules in your hand and the table miss and your hand goes right through the table.
Interest1ngFacts
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Level 18
May 24, 2024
that is the coolest thing i've ever heard

i envy the lucky person who beats those odds and has a crazy story to tell

JetPunker180
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Level 54
May 24, 2024
Interesting! But it has been already suggested on page 171 and QM didn't accept it.
Interest1ngFacts
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May 24, 2024
i have started to wonder if QM stops reading our comments on interesting facts after a while cause there's just too many
Neodymium
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May 24, 2024
defo does
McKenzieFam
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May 24, 2024
I do wonder if some really good facts get missed while other average ones get added because there end up being so many comments that old ones get hidden
Neodymium
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May 24, 2024
higher chance half stay inside or smth
JohnnyYeet
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May 24, 2024
Dude idk. Just to put into perspective how small of a probability this is, the amount of atoms in the solar system is estimated at 1.2 x 10^56. You would be 43,000 times more likely to pick a certain atom out of the entire solar system than to have your hand phase through a table.
McKenzieFam
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May 24, 2024
well, another good way to see this is that the chance of your hand passing through the table is about equal to your shoe passing through the sidewalk to the ground below. That has never happened in recorded history and probably never will
Interest1ngFacts
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May 24, 2024
But if it does, hoo-diggity! That person is in for a traumatizing, non-Euclidean experience!
Neodymium
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May 28, 2024
how do u know its never happened
DawnX
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May 25, 2024
i wonder what the chance of a piece of paper and a grain of sand passing through each other is. since they have far fewer atoms it must be exponentially more likely
McKenzieFam
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May 25, 2024
huh good point. most of an atom is empty space anyway, so if the electron shells miss by sheer luck then the atoms should slide right through.. though the chances of getting stuck halfway would be higher. And the chance of that is about equal to my picking one grain of sand and having you randomly guess which grain of sand I'd picked AND GETTING IT RIGHT too. Before dropping that sand through your paper of course.
Interest1ngFacts
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May 26, 2024
This is almost too interesting
Xtrordinary
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May 25, 2024
happened to me yeterday
Neodymium
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May 24, 2024
A Florida's worth of people are born in India every year.
Interest1ngFacts
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Level 18
May 26, 2024
A Florida’s worth of democracy is also lost in India every year
Neodymium
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May 27, 2024
Why has bro been following Indian politics what
Neodymium
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Level 59
May 29, 2024
also what prompted that comment my good sir
Interest1ngFacts
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May 31, 2024
Idk lmao
NEGeo
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May 31, 2024
Florida doesn't have democracy
SirPhilippines
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May 25, 2024
The Whanganui River of New Zealand is legally a person, the first ever river and the second ever natural feature to become one. The river has two representatives to speak for it, and it was given so that the River could be protected for the indigenous Maōri,
DawnX
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May 25, 2024
Does that mean its the oldest legally living person?
JohnnyYeet
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Level 57
May 25, 2024
Quite possibly the oldest person ever, not just living
Xtrordinary
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May 25, 2024
Interestingly, not the only river to also be a person, the Magpie River is also one.

Also the macron is supposed to be above the 'a' not the 'o'.

SirPhilippines
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Level 66
May 25, 2024
My bad, but good to know now
Interest1ngFacts
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Level 18
May 25, 2024
The line is called a macron? that's interesting and good to know
McKenzieFam
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Level 65
May 25, 2024
Yep now that is an interesting fact
SirPhilippines
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May 26, 2024
Other sites seen as persons:

The Indian state of Uttarakhand views the Ganges and Yamuna rivers as persons,

Colombia has their Atrato River as a legal person,

Mar Menor in Spain is treated as a legal person, “legally represented by a group of citizens, scientists and officials”,

The first landform to be a legal person is Te Urewera, which is rugged hill country in New Zealand, which is the historical home of the Māori Iwi tribe called the “Tūhoe”,

The indigenous Yurok Tribe of California granted personhood to the Klamath River,

And lastly, the city of Toledo, Ohio, passed personhood rights for Lake Erie.

Interest1ngFacts
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Level 18
May 26, 2024
Why did Toledo do that?
Interest1ngFacts
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Level 18
May 25, 2024
What the hell was happening to platypuses that made them need that evolutionary adaptation?
Interest1ngFacts
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Level 18
May 25, 2024
“Ferb, I know what we’re gonna do today”
McKenzieFam
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Level 65
May 26, 2024
Evolve to have venomous spines on your limbs?
Interest1ngFacts
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Level 18
May 26, 2024
Yeah
McKenzieFam
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Level 65
May 26, 2024
Fun
DawnX
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Level 51
May 26, 2024
Platypuses? Platypii? Platypeople?
sssaaa
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Level 65
May 26, 2024
Perry?
Interest1ngFacts
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Level 18
May 26, 2024
Doobie doobie doo baa
Interest1ngFacts
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Level 18
May 26, 2024
I turned 16 today
SirPhilippines
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Level 66
May 26, 2024
happy birthday!
Fianchetto
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Level 75
May 26, 2024
Happy birthday

I had a dream recently where I lost my 250 day jetpunk streak if was awful

McKenzieFam
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Level 65
May 26, 2024
Happy birthday!
DawnX
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Level 51
May 27, 2024
happy birthday
Neodymium
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Level 59
May 27, 2024
Happy birthday!
Interest1ngFacts
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Level 18
May 27, 2024
Funny how fact 979 starts off as though any of us is just encountering platypi on a regular basis
JetPunker180
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May 27, 2024
There is a dispute within the Indian communist movement on whether the Communist Party of India was founded in Tashkent in 1920 or Kanpur in 1925.
Xtrordinary
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Level 60
May 28, 2024
founded in Cyprus in 1918 actually
FreeStater
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May 28, 2024
At least it was founded on the same continent.
Interest1ngFacts
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Level 18
May 28, 2024
Some would disagree
DawnX
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May 28, 2024
How in the World is Dan not ok with politics being discussed on JP but is ok with the discussion of the continental status of Cyprus. Its, like, 500x more controversial than any political topic
Interest1ngFacts
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Level 18
May 28, 2024
hahaha
FirstPrism
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Level 44
May 28, 2024
I can't believe we have the same amount of pages as countries in CotW
Interest1ngFacts
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Level 18
May 28, 2024
🤯
lexpusloskie
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Level 55
May 29, 2024
#930 is a repeat of #149

also posted this comment there

Interest1ngFacts
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Level 18
May 29, 2024
So it is! Good noticing
Interest1ngFacts
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Level 18
May 31, 2024
Shame that that sets us back 1 fact from 1000
Interest1ngFacts
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May 30, 2024
The Airbus A380 costs $428 million and takes 34 people 15 days to repaint.
Interest1ngFacts
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Level 18
May 31, 2024
The Burj Khalifa’s windows take about three months to clean.
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