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Not counting war deaths, life expectancy in the U.K. increased during WWII because people ate a much healthier diet due to wartime rationing.

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More than half of unsheltered homeless people in the U.S. live in California.

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Steller's sea cow was a giant relative of the dugong and manatee that grew up to 9 meters in length. It was first discovered in the Bering Sea in 1741. The slow-moving and easily caught mammal was hunted to extinction within 27 years.

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A single hunter is reported to have killed over 3 million passenger pigeons, thus hastening the extinction of the species.

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To spawn, some salmon swim as far as 1400 kilometers upriver, all the way from the Pacific Ocean to central Idaho.

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Level 21

Oct 25, 2020

Guangzhou is closer to London than madrid

Level 65

Oct 26, 2020

How can that be possibly true?

Level 58

Nov 15, 2020

It is true, because of Mercator map stuff. It's the reason why Reykjavik and Wellington, NZ is 17,243 km and Madrid to Wellington is 19,843 km (a huge difference).

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Level 76

Jan 6, 2021

I think meant was 'the distance between Guangzhou and London is smaller than the distance between Guangzhou and Madrid'. Maybe you read it like I did at first: the distance between Guangzhou and London is smaller than the distance between London and Madrid.

Level 65

Feb 24, 2021

yeah, that is what I saw

Level 52

Jun 15, 2021

boston is actually closer to london than to washington dc

Level 58

Aug 14, 2021

That makes total sense, what are you saying?

Level 51

Oct 26, 2020

Both Brandy and Champagne were made by accident.

Level 65

Oct 26, 2020

Picasso's painting, The Old Guitarist, has a faint face over his head. People x-rayed it and found another painting under it.

Source: https://daydreamtourist.com/2012/08/22/the-painting-under-the-painting/

Level 64

Mar 25, 2021

Not here to argue that the life expectancy didn't go up during WWII, however I would argue that it may not have been due to war time food suply. Instead I beleive that the life expectancy went up due to the fact that many men, who typically live shorter lives, died in the war, meaning that less men brought down the average those years.

Level ∞

Mar 30, 2021

I don't think that makes sense. Old men weren't going to fight in WWII.

Level 37

Jun 15, 2023

Well isn't that the reason it increased? It was the young that went and died, while the old remained.

Level 78

Oct 1, 2021

fewer*

Level 50

Jul 6, 2022

@chad *believe*