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There is a smartphone app designed for people to study "Xi Jinping Thought", the teachings of the current leader of China. It has more than 100 million active users.

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About 8% of married men in South Korea are married to foreign brides, most of whom are "mail-order brides".

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In the 1950s, only 3% of all American men between 25–54 years didn't have a job. By 2018, that number had risen to about 12%.

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At least 11,000 people die from snakebites in India each year.

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Lake Champlain was briefly named the sixth "Great Lake" by an act of Congress in 1998. Its status was quickly rescinded due to public outrage.

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Level 52

Feb 25, 2021

Wow! I need that app.

Level 52

Feb 25, 2021

For anyone wanting more info...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xuexi_Qiangguo

Level 43

Mar 4, 2021

Me too LOL! Maybe a STF (Brazil) Thoughts App? I would download it... lol

Level 83

May 3, 2022

100M active users? Sure, sure. If so, it's simply forced indoctrination of party members (~95M members of the CCP).

Level 55

Feb 25, 2021

A better way to word number 625 is to add that Winnepeg has Exceeded 100 degrees

Level 51

Feb 25, 2021

Miami??...

Level ∞

Feb 25, 2021

The fact is worded as intended.

Level 51

Feb 25, 2021

Well, ProximaCentauri, it isn't so uncommon for temperatures to go into the 100s in the Great Plains.

Level 55

Feb 25, 2021

Every Panda in a zoo today is loaned from China.

https://bestlifeonline.com/world-facts/

Level 54

Feb 26, 2021

Wow, means China has copyrights of Panda

Level 14

Feb 28, 2021

Source looks unreliable to me...

Level 63

Feb 25, 2021

The closest planet to Neptune (most of the time) is Mercury.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwjlzvPRtYbvAhWUKM0KHQWzDowQwqsBMAB6BAgFEAg&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DSumDHcnCRuU&usg=AOvVaw0FyWXIfs5TpcVKCpQjgEif

Level 60

Feb 27, 2021

True

Level 75

Mar 29, 2021

I think it's true that Mercury is the closest planet (most of the time) to all planets in the solar system.

Level 39

Feb 26, 2021

627 - I am very sad

Level 51

Feb 26, 2021

Fast Typing 1-100 used to be in a series called "time wasters".

Level 67

Feb 27, 2021

Every Tetris piece has four blocks, look it up if you don't believe me.

Level 51

Feb 27, 2021

To really acknowledge simply how vast the great lakes are, think of this. How are Cape Cod and the Badlands alike? They are both in states that border the great lakes region.

Level 71

Feb 28, 2021

Massachusetts doesn't border a Great Lake.

Level 60

Mar 1, 2021

Who wrote that? GrandOldMan or GeoSmartKirbyXD.

Level 42

Mar 1, 2021

GrandOldMan because because Geo never does

Level 58

Aug 20, 2021

Technically neither do the Dakotas.

Level 54

Apr 25, 2022

Correct. The other commenters did not read your statement. It said great lakes REGION, which includes Minnesota and New York. The Dakotas border Minnesota. Massachusetts borders New York.

Level 54

Feb 28, 2021

Black box in airplanes is not black, it is orange

Source.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.quora.com/Why-are-black-boxes-orange&ved=2ahUKEwj7u7rLg43vAhXjnVwKHdysD98QFjAYegQIRRAC&usg=AOvVaw0Xf-dsnafxBRentjwj3Y3J

Level 67

Mar 1, 2021

Theodore Roosevelt and Franklin Roosevelt shared more than a last name, they both,

-Served as President

-Ran for Vice President

-Served as the Governor of New York

-Served as Assistant Secretary of the Navy

-Served in the New York State Legislature

Level 78

Mar 5, 2021

-were related to Eleanor Roosevelt

Level 67

Mar 5, 2021

I am from S.Korea but I didn't even know about #627.

Level 59

Mar 6, 2021

"Didn't had a job".

Level 84

Mar 16, 2021

626: So, basically, Xi Jinping "Little Red Book" with a twist... a technological twist.

Level 60

Oct 10, 2021

For 628, it should be 'In the 1950s, only 3% of all American men between 25–54 years didn't have a job. By 2018, that number had risen to about 12%.'

Level 71

Nov 15, 2021

'Dollyfroggy' wins the Golden Nitpick award for Oct. 2021.......Congratulations.

Level 69

Dec 1, 2021

Just sitting here outraged that they called Lake Champlain a Great Lake.

Absolutely fuming.

Boiling over with rage.

Incandescent, even.

Level 71

Jul 12, 2022

Re: 629:

Newspaper report in India:

NEW DELHI—An onslaught of fatal snakebite attacks is sweeping India and killing tens of thousands each year—and so far, the government’s response has been to ignore, trivialize, and cover up the crisis altogether.

A 2020 study, which was based on verbal autopsies, suggests that on average, close to 58,000 Indian citizens die each year due to snakebites. In contrast, the country’s government reports ridiculously low numbers: In 2018, the Health and Family Welfare minister Ashwini Kumar Choubey declared that only 689 snake-related deaths had occurred in India that year—a fraction of the figure referenced in the study, and one that any expert would quickly balk at.

Level 51

Sep 8, 2023

we truly live in a world where calling a lake a great lake can cause public outrage