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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.
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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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Level ∞
May 6, 2024
Credit @j3n for #978.
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
Neodymium
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Level 59
Jun 1, 2024
good we get another fact
McKenzieFam
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Level 65
Jun 2, 2024
That's the NFAD in you talking
Neodymium
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Level 59
Jun 2, 2024
I DONT HAVE NFAD.🇲🇿. I swear you need to stop. That's so rude. The entire things a joke. It's not even funny If I had NFAD I would tell you the noble prize was first awarded in 1901, just 82 years before Mozambique would adopt their flag, which actually, if you didn't know, has an ak! In fact, it;s the only flag to have one (national). Isn't that so cool! Platypus!!! 🇲🇿 Baikal strawhat baik🇲🇿al deepest 🇲🇿 bhutan..tree rica cost..NEW CALADON🇲🇿
Interest1ngFacts
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Level 18
Jun 2, 2024
🇲🇿🇲🇿🇲🇿🇲🇿🇲🇿🇲🇿🇲🇿🇲🇿🇲🇿🇲🇿🇲🇿🇲🇿🇲🇿🇲🇿🇲🇿🇲🇿🇲🇿🇲🇿🇲🇿🇲🇿🇲🇿🇲🇿🇲🇿🇲🇿🇲🇿🇲🇿🇲🇿🇲🇿🇲🇿🇲🇿

*flatlines*

ItzIngenious
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Level 60
Jun 4, 2024
Is the personality thingies like new zodiac signs or whatever, I don’t really understand it. Seems like a kinda stupid fad to me.
DawnX
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Level 52
Jun 4, 2024
wake up new brainrot just dropped
Interest1ngFacts
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Level 18
Jun 5, 2024
ngl imo NFAD is one of the funniest things the community has come up with... er, been afflicted by. GANDHI
DawnX
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Level 52
Jun 5, 2024
yea its really funny but neo's comment above i would definitely call brainrot (still funny tho)
DawnX
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Level 52
Jun 5, 2024
sticking out your facts for the gandhi

youre so mozambique

youre so nobel prize

Interest1ngFacts
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Level 18
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.
peardestroyer
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Level 60
Jun 1, 2024
Maybe this is too well-known, but still interesting: if you removed 1 billion people from China or India, they would still be the most populous countries in the world.
Neodymium
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Level 59
Jun 2, 2024
nah thats good
FreeStater
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Level 69
Jun 2, 2024
Angaur, a state of Palau, has Japanese as an official language. More interestingly, since Japan itself has no official language, it's the only place on Earth to have such.
Interest1ngFacts
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Level 18
Jun 2, 2024
Japan doesn’t have an official language? What??
DawnX
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Level 52
Jun 2, 2024
iirc the us also doesnt have one
Neodymium
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Level 59
Jun 2, 2024
no no its based
JetPunker180
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Level 54
Jun 3, 2024
Nusaybah family, a Sunni Muslim family has owned the key of most holy place for Christians, Church of the Holy Sepulchre since seventh century (even during crusades). This was due to the facts that Christians can't solve who should owns the keys.
Xtrordinary
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Level 60
Jun 4, 2024
Its illegal in Florida to impersonate spiderman while holding a ball and entering the governor of Florida's house through the front window without permission
Interest1ngFacts
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Level 18
Jun 4, 2024
but only in Florida. this kind of thing is perfectly legal in New York, and happens on a biweekly basis
Neodymium
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Level 59
Jun 4, 2024
which biweekly? I personally go twice a week but my neighbor enters the front window on week one, then 2 weeks later, impersoantes spiderman
Interest1ngFacts
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Level 18
Jun 4, 2024
I prefer to use the loophole and enter through the skylight rather than the window. Then they can’t charge me
McKenzieFam
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Level 65
Jun 4, 2024
I found that dressing as Superman rather than Spider-Man also does a pretty good job of keeping you out of the hands of the law
Interest1ngFacts
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Level 18
Jun 5, 2024
people in Florida seem to prefer DC to Marvel so that makes sense
DawnX
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Level 52
Jun 4, 2024
i love how florida has such a big problem with that, they need to have a new law put into place, prohibiting exactly that
DawnX
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Level 52
Jun 4, 2024
ok, ive found reports of florida man robbing a store dressed as spiderman and florida man encasing himself in concrete at the governors mansion but not these two in combination so it looks like its fake. ill keep searching tho
Interest1ngFacts
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Level 18
Jun 4, 2024
I thought the fact was a joke
DawnX
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Level 52
Jun 4, 2024
i thought it was real. its florida so i wouldnt be surprised if it was real
Interest1ngFacts
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Level 18
Jun 5, 2024
nobody would be surprised
Xtrordinary
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Level 60
Jun 5, 2024
its illegal because its trespassing
Neodymium
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Level 59
Jun 5, 2024
In North Korea its illegal to do a cartwheel across the higheay while hikding a unicycle!!b!!

(jaywalking law covers this, but not specifically, and since going across a higheay isnt allowed all of it isnt, and other laws people claim are real

Interest1ngFacts
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Level 18
Jun 5, 2024
There aren’t any highways in North Korea 😂
Neodymium
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Level 59
Jun 6, 2024
in the same vein:

In the UK it's illegal to break your neighbor's window while eating a crossont named Joe at 6:15 pm on leap day!

DawnX
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Level 52
Jun 5, 2024
Malaysia established diplomatic relations with Cook Islands 1 year before New Zealand, which Cook Islands is a territory (or "state in free association")
TheNatureThread
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Level 65
Jun 7, 2024
In September 2023, the speaker of the Canadian House of Commons, Anthony Rota, resigned after a scandal in which he honored a Waffen-SS veteran in the house. The longest serving member of the house was Louis Plamondon of the Bloc Québecois, meaning he became interim speaker until the speaker election concluded. Since Bloc Québecois is a separatist party, this means Canada technically had an interim speaker from a party which rejected the idea of being part of Canada.
Interest1ngFacts
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Level 18
Jun 7, 2024
Canada has the weirdest scandals
Fianchetto
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Level 75
Jun 7, 2024
Did you hear about the one where they tried to burn all the maple trees in Vermont to secure their monopoly on syrup? Can’t trust these guys.
Neodymium
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Level 59
Jun 7, 2024
LINK
Fianchetto
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Level 75
Jun 8, 2024
proof
Neodymium
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Level 59
Jun 9, 2024
thank you!
Interest1ngFacts
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Level 18
Jun 7, 2024
The Potsdam Giants were a Prussian regiment of soldiers created and appointed by King Frederick William I. These soldiers were all at least 6’ 2”. Frederick had a strange obsession with tall soldiers, admitting that “the most beautiful girl or woman in the world would be a matter of indifference to me, but tall soldiers—they are my weakness.” These soldiers were paid depending on how tall they were, and were often given preferential treatment over other soldiers. However, most of the “long fellows” were forcibly recruited, and many were unhappy with their positions as a result. Frederick would even sometimes buy tall parents’ babies in the hope of a tall child.

Weirdo.

Fianchetto
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Level 75
Jun 7, 2024
The link isn’t working for me
DawnX
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Level 52
Jun 7, 2024
looking at the source code of this page, i dont even see any link in the hyperlink. same applies to above comment about potsdam giants
McKenzieFam
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Level 65
Jun 7, 2024
Here's the Potsdam Giants one

And then the bravest man I've learned about link

Interest1ngFacts
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Level 18
Jun 7, 2024
ha ha McKenzie. I really don’t know why my A tags in my comments haven’t been working right. Maybe it’s cause I posted those comments on mobile or smth.

Actual links

Potsdam giants: https://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/potsdam-giants.html

Dan Goodwin (aka Spider-Dan): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Goodwin

JetPunker180
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Level 54
Jun 8, 2024
Or

Actual links

Potsdam giants:

Postdam giants

Dan Goodwin (aka Spider-Dan):

Spider-Dan

Interest1ngFacts
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Level 18
Jun 8, 2024
Thanks
McKenzieFam
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Level 65
Jun 9, 2024
Ah thanks JP180. The Potsdam Giants link was easy to find, but I had no clue who @Interest1ngFacts was referring to for the other one. Perfect opportunity for a rickroll I guess
McKenzieFam
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Level 65
Jun 14, 2024
You gotta be brave to climb up the outside of skyscrapers using nothing except frickin suction cups and sheer luck
Xtrordinary
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Level 60
Jun 8, 2024
Bellwether counties are counties which side with the winning presidential candidate. Clallam County, Washington has done so since 1980 with no errors. Blaine County, Montana has sided with the winning US presidential candidate since 1916 except for 1988.
Neodymium
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Level 59
Jun 8, 2024
wdym
DawnX
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Level 52
Jun 8, 2024
if the us presidential winner turns out to be democratic party, the county has voted democratic in this election, if the republican becomes president, the county has voted democratic but its unrelated so the people in the county dont know who is gonna win the election
Interest1ngFacts
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Level 18
Jun 8, 2024
…the Electoral College sucks…
FreeStater
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Level 69
Jun 8, 2024
This has nothing to do with the electoral college… ?
Interest1ngFacts
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Level 18
Jun 8, 2024
It’s sort of related. There are other more democratic methods [than the Electoral College] of either apportioning electoral votes (the states have always had the power to literally choose however they want to do this—they could pick names out of a hat if they wanted to) or just voting in general. Electoral votes could be awarded by congressional district (this system is only used in Maine and Nebraska) or even by county (I’ve never heard of a system that would somehow appoint votes by how counties voted, but I’m sure someone could devise something). Other methods of voting, such as Ranked Choice Voting (this is often considered one of the most fair and democratic methods of voting) could change bellwether counties’ importance in elections.

If any of you have an interest in learning more about the American voting system and how it can be made more democratic, you should check out FairVote.com. They have a lot more info than I do haha

Interest1ngFacts
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Level 18
Jun 9, 2024
?
DawnX
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Level 52
Jun 9, 2024
North Korea has claimed that they have landed a man on the sun and that a Unicorn Lair has been discovered in Pyongyang
Neodymium
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Level 59
Jun 9, 2024
True, im the pyongyang
DawnX
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Level 52
Jun 9, 2024
so youre saying you have a unicorn lair... inside yourself !?🤨
ItzIngenious
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Level 60
Jun 10, 2024
Pause?
DawnX
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Level 52
Jun 12, 2024
i really hope you meant that they live inside your heart and not somewhere else inside you
Xtrordinary
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Level 60
Jun 10, 2024
Saving animals from extinction can make other animals go extinct. An example of this is the Iberian lynx louse. The louse lived in the Iberian lynx and went extinct when all remaining Iberian lynxes were taken into captivity and deloused to assist its survival, causing the extinction of the louse.
McKenzieFam
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Level 65
Jun 10, 2024
Isn't that ironic?
Interest1ngFacts
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Level 18
Jun 10, 2024
Malawi’s vice president’s aircraft just went missing with him in it. Note to heads of state: STOP TRAVELING IN HELICOPTERS BRUH
DawnX
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Level 52
Jun 10, 2024
this is starting to get creepy...
Interest1ngFacts
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Level 18
Jun 10, 2024
“Justin Trudeau’s LearJet Vanishes Into the Aether at 40,000 Feet Over Saskatchewan”
McKenzieFam
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Level 65
Jun 10, 2024
I feel a conspiracy coming on...
Fianchetto
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Level 75
Jun 12, 2024
I almost forgot Sebastián Piñera, this is #3 this year
Interest1ngFacts
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Level 18
Jun 10, 2024
It seems it was actually a plane but whatever
Fianchetto
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Level 75
Jun 11, 2024
Bruh he dead now
Interest1ngFacts
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Level 18
Jun 11, 2024
Damn
Fianchetto
+2
Level 75
Jun 11, 2024
Fact #358 is jinxing the world
Neodymium
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Level 59
Jun 12, 2024
you actually have nfad why do you remember that
ItzIngenious
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Level 60
Jun 13, 2024
That’s only commercial though
Neodymium
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Level 59
Jun 11, 2024
the boy who harnessed the wind or smth is a good movie about a guy from malawi
Interest1ngFacts
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Level 18
Jun 11, 2024
it really is a great movie.
Neodymium
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Level 59
Jun 11, 2024
malawi is actually next to mozambique which, if youdntknow has an

🇲🇿

TheNatureThread
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Level 65
Jun 11, 2024
Gerald Ford is sometimes called the only US president who wasn't elected. All the others were elected to either the Presidency or Vice Presidency, but Ford was appointed to the Vice Presidency after Spiro Agnew resigned a few months before Richard Nixon resigned from the presidency.
TheNatureThread
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Level 65
Jun 11, 2024
A sort of equivalent in India: Charan Singh was the only prime minister who never proved their support from the majority of parliament. He was promised support from Indira Gandhi's Congress party with some conditions, but he refused the condition of dropping charges against Indira and Sanjay Gandhi. Congress (I) withdrew their support just before he was to face parliament. He resigned after 23 days in July-August 1979 but remained a caretaker until the next election in January 1980.
Neodymium
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Level 59
Jun 11, 2024
interestting (return smh we make server better!)
Interest1ngFacts
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Level 18
Jun 12, 2024
After World War II, there was a huge housing shortage when all the vets returned home and had nowhere to live. So the government found some empty space and in a matter of months built Quonset huts for six thousand people, all for a total cost of what in today's dollars would be less than eighteen million. Back to today. In the bond measure LA passed in 2016 to build housing for the homeless, each unit was projected to cost $140,000. And after LA actually started building these apartments, the cost for each unit rose to $531,000. “How is that possible?” you may ask. Do they each come with a shark tank and an infinity pool? No, they don’t.

They do still make those Quonset huts, and one today would cost about eight grand. But it's hard to skim money off eight grand. But $531,000? Definitely. About 40 percent of that cost goes to something the city calls "soft costs": middle-men, inspectors, contractors, lawyers, lobbyists and consultants.

Can people just do their freaking jobs?

Neodymium
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Level 59
Jun 12, 2024
Certainly very cOol fact! I Really Really Utmostly Presume all The InfO is correct! thaNks!
Interest1ngFacts
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Level 18
Jun 12, 2024
???
DawnX
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Level 52
Jun 13, 2024
it spells out COIRRUPTION [sic]
Neodymium
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Level 59
Jun 13, 2024
wait no ignore the i that was on accident
Interest1ngFacts
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Level 18
Jun 13, 2024
hahaha

yeah my friend thinks it's corruption but honestly i think it's just people going way overboard with safety regulations and zoning laws and crap. if something needs to be done, you do it. you don't need a bajillion legal fees and permits and crap that makes important projects go slower and balloon in cost. it's ridiculous.

Neodymium
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Level 59
Jun 13, 2024
zoning laws do not cost 400k to abide by
Interest1ngFacts
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Level 18
Jun 13, 2024
Yeah ik, but it’s part of the cost. Just an example
Neodymium
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Level 59
Jun 12, 2024
tf is lobbying for homeless huts?
Interest1ngFacts
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Level 18
Jun 12, 2024
Exactly, it’s bullcrap 😂
ooftownroad
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Level 61
Jun 13, 2024
Nearly 1 out of 2 people in Crowley County, Colorado are incarcerated

And if that's not interesting, i dont know what is

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowley_County,_Colorado

McKenzieFam
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Level 65
Jun 13, 2024
is there a prison there the same size as the town?
ooftownroad
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Level 61
Jun 13, 2024
Yeah pretty much
ooftownroad
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Level 61
Jun 13, 2024
At the very lowest it’s 1 out of 3 people
Interest1ngFacts
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Level 18
Jun 13, 2024
Ukraine was briefly the world’s third-largest nuclear power.
JetPunker180
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Level 54
Jun 15, 2024
Technically, Platypuses sweat milk
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