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671
The ECB has issued 0 Euro banknotes for collector purposes. Despite having a face value of zero, they typically sell for at least two Euros.
672
Euro banknotes often feature fake bridges. Fake, that is, until the Netherlands decided to build them all.
673
In 2011, a Chinese teenager sold one of his kidneys for cash to buy an iPhone and an iPad. Now an adult, the man has become extremely ill with renal failure.
674
In the 1400s, much of Europe had a depressed economy because they didn't have enough gold and silver to conduct business. The so-called "Great Bullion Famine" ended when Spanish ships reached the New World.
675
Until the 19th century, paper was made from rags, not wood pulp.
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Quizmaster
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Level ∞
May 1, 2021
Credit @ARandomQuizzer for #671 and #672.
Bloxelkid1234
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Level 56
May 1, 2021
Did you know the bonobo's name was actually a misspelling of a town? Researchers found the ape in a town in the DRC called Bolobo. The crate that the ape was being shipped in was marked "Bonobo", making the people refer to the ape as "bonobo."
Bloxelkid1234
+4
Level 56
May 7, 2021
Did you also know that people aren't antisocial, they just want to be alone because they think that everyone around them is stupid.
IsleAuHaulte
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Level 89
Oct 14, 2022
Go away.

Just kidding.

OofyMcOoferson
+1
Level 49
Apr 19, 2024
The disinformation contest when this guy shows up:
turnbacktwo
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Level 42
May 1, 2021
Soccer balls have been used for basketball.

Palau is the least populated country that drives on right side of the road.

Nauru, Switzerland and Monaco technically don't have capitals.

Amazonas is twice the size of Texas

Jesus backwards sounds like sausage

No fish live in an actual sea.

IsleAuHaulte
+4
Level 89
Oct 14, 2022
What 4 people gave this a thumbs up for "No fish live in an actual sea"? Come on.
FreeStater
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Level 66
Jan 24, 2023
"Soccer balls have been used for basketball."

On God?

Dollyfroggy
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Level 60
Mar 15, 2024
Quite the assortment of facts you have there.
ooftownroad
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Level 61
May 1, 2021
Vatican City may be the smallest country, but it houses the world's largest church: St Peters Basilica
UhmmmACYSHUALY
+10
Level 37
May 6, 2021
That actually makes sense. The whole point of the vatican is to be the Pope's legroom.
ImNotAmerican
+14
Level 38
May 2, 2021
Nebraska is triply landlocked.
Dollyfroggy
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Level 60
Mar 15, 2024
So much for not being American.
OofyMcOoferson
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Level 49
Apr 19, 2024
Quadrupply landlocked, or Quintuply landlocked too. depending on how you look at it.
HydratedMite
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Level 65
Apr 19, 2024
How?
JetPunker180
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Level 54
May 2, 2021
My fact was choosen after a looooooon loooooong time, thanks QM. I found that fact in book which was studied in class 2 in my school.
thegoatisgoaty
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Level 71
May 2, 2021
1. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

2. Jupiter is twice as large as all the other planets combined.

3. Junk food is as addictive as drugs.

4. One single teaspoon of honey represents the life work of 12 bees.

5. Chalk is edible.

6. Oreo has made enough cookies to span five back and forth trips to the moon.

7. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

8. Montpelier, Vermont, is the only U.S. capital without a McDonald’s.

9. There’s a city called “Rome” on every continent except Antarctica.

10. New Jersey grows two-thirds of the world’s eggplants.

11. Almonds are members of the peach family.

12. An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.

13. More Monopoly money is printed in a year than actual money throughout the world.

14. The country of Russia is bigger than Pluto.

15. In the 1830s, ketchup was used medicinally.

gewehr6628
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Level 46
May 3, 2021
how are the oreos oriented? face to face or edge to edge
LuigiDood227
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Level 64
May 27, 2021
Credit to whoever tested #5
PeregrineFalcon
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Level 76
Jun 9, 2021
10. seems to be wrong wiki. Maybe you mean two thirds of the total US production?
IsleAuHaulte
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Level 89
Oct 14, 2022
One garden could grow all the eggplant in the world and it would be more than plenty.
ItzIngenious
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Level 60
Dec 16, 2022
Gotta say, I’m skeptical of a lot of these (1,3,4,5,7,10,13)
HydratedMite
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Level 65
Apr 19, 2024
You're online, you can search it up. Most of those are right.
Fianchetto
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Level 73
Sep 12, 2023
I did a science fair project on #1.
TheNatureThread
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Level 65
May 2, 2021
Portland, OR was almost named Boston. The name was decided by a coin flip.
SirPhilippines
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Level 65
May 3, 2021
Baarle-Hertog, in Belgium, is a town that is encompassed by the Netherlands and borders the town of Baarle-Nassau. But Baarle-Nassau is also inside Baarle-Hertog. The borders between the two countries come through roads, shops, and houses. Both have their own church, post system, and mayonnaise. From the two mayors, both prefer the Belgian side (Baarle-Hertog) from the Dutch side (Baarle-Nassau)
turnbacktwo
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Level 42
May 3, 2021
Fact 535
SirPhilippines
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Level 65
May 3, 2021
Not really. They just said there are parts of the Netherlands in Belgium in the Netherlands. I'm referring about the cities, not the countries.
angrobper14
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Level 84
May 4, 2021
Apparently, there are no more double exclaves in the Belgium-Netherlands border beyond Baarle.

So... 535 does account for Baarle, even if not explicitly mentioning it.

NV1
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Level 51
May 3, 2021
I think we've already seen enough "countries are fighting over land" cases. But here's an interesting one. Bir Tawil, 800 sq miles of uninhabited desert, is claimed by no one. Each country says that their original shape looks better. Sudan has been trying to sell it to Egypt for the fertile region of the Habib triangle, but to no vain.
MG17
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Level 43
May 3, 2021
Talking about this, in 2014, an American 'took possession' of Bir Tawil to 'make his daughter a princess'. To fulfill her request, he decided to claim a piece of land in African territory and make her the "princess" of the place. The man, Jeremiah Heaton, traveled from the state of Virginia, USA, to the border between Egypt and Sudan, to plant a flag designed by daughter Emily (7 years old), in the territory. The idea came when Emily, "in a serious tone", asked her father if she "would ever become a princess". To celebrate Emily's seventh birthday, Heaton traveled to Bir Tawil, one of the few unclaimed territories in the world, "to make his daughter's dream come true". On June 16, he planted his flag in the territory and named it the Kingdom of North Sudan. And more: Emily wants Bir Tawil to become an agricultural center, which is difficult because it is a desert region.
ooftownroad
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Level 61
May 3, 2021
There are also unclaimed land in europe between croatia and serbia
McKenzieFam
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Level 63
Aug 4, 2022
i claim it. its mine now
MG17
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Level 43
May 3, 2021
Hungary suffered from severe hyperinflation after the Second World War. With an inflation of 150,000% a day, the pengő could no longer cope and the government created the thousand-pengő, which was worth one million units of the old currency. Then they did the b-pengő, which was worth a billion pengő... until they got to the 100 million b-pengő bill, which was basically 100 million billion or 100 quintillion pengő, which was worth little. This madness lasted between 1945 and 1946, when the pengő was exchanged for the Hungarian forint, currency that the country still uses today. To give you an idea, a hungarian forint was worth 400 octillion of pengo (4 × 1029, a 4 with 29 zeros behind), at the time of the exchange.
1ProximaCentauri
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Level 55
May 3, 2021
In December of 1923, A US dollar was equal to 5.72 billion German Marks

http://marcuse.faculty.history.ucsb.edu/projects/currency.htm

ooftownroad
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Level 61
May 3, 2021
Another quick question: on a quiz, how do you make an answer already given to you, so you dont have to type it?
SirPhilippines
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Level 65
May 3, 2021
I recommend doing this after you make all the answers but here you go.

You can make them in step 4. It will show a design mode, click manual. Then, click on the box you want to make a text, and go into "Manual Cell Options". Then, click where it would say answer. Then, click text, and type in whatever. You might see in some quizzes it is greyed out. If you don't know how to do that, click on "Edit Styles", click BG Color, Click on the text that says "FFFFFF", then a color palate appears with a dot. You can drag that to change the color.

SirPhilippines
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Level 65
May 3, 2021
Also, you can ask questions in the change log, and if you don't know where that is, you go to "More", then to "Info Pages" then to the change log.
ooftownroad
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Level 61
May 3, 2021
Thanks!
SirPhilippines
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Level 65
May 3, 2021
The micronation of the Republic of Molossia is in Nevada, has a military dictatorship, and is at war with East Germany.
gewehr6628
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Level 46
May 3, 2021
now thats interesting
ooftownroad
+1
Level 61
May 4, 2021
that is cool
angrobper14
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Level 84
May 3, 2021
Gotta love those Dutch folks. Several people would've gone like "Those bridges don't exist!!! Discontinue the bills!!!", while they went: "Is this a challenge? A blueprint? A bulid-my-bridge wish?"
thailand
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Level 40
May 3, 2021
Africa is the only continent situated in all the four hemispheres – the western, the eastern, the northern and the southern
angrobper14
+9
Level 84
May 4, 2021
Kiribati (Oceania) wants to have a talk with you...
SirPhilippines
+4
Level 65
May 4, 2021
For the memes:

Kiribati wants to know your location.

ItzIngenious
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Level 60
Jan 12, 2022
Look up the definition of a continent. Kiribati isn’t in a continent, just how Japan, or Philippines, or Ireland isn’t in any continent. Oceania is a region.
HydratedMite
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Level 65
Apr 19, 2024
The definition of continent is very vague and rarely used. In practice, a continent is just what is usually considered a continent, in this case Oceania.
thegoatisgoaty
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Level 71
Jan 26, 2022
Wow, Japan and the Philippines aren't in any continents? I could have sworn that they were in the lost continent of Cyprus.
McKenzieFam
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Level 63
Aug 4, 2022
Ireland is Europe.

Japan and the Philippines are Asia.

Cyprus is also ASIA!!!!

Dollyfroggy
+1
Level 60
Mar 15, 2024
Cyprus? You mean the African island nation?
RandomJetPunker
+1
Level 25
May 3, 2021
Fun fact: during prohibition in the US, alcohol was still allowed for several uses, including for catholic masses!
NV1
+1
Level 51
May 4, 2021
Maine is bigger than South Carolina

By terms of total area, New Mexico the fifth biggest state. However, by water area, it's the 49th biggest one, only above WV.

MG17
+2
Level 43
May 5, 2021
I think that "Maine biggest than South Carolina" is seeable with a map
NV1
+1
Level 51
May 4, 2021
When you go up into northern Alaska, it get's pretty sparsely populated. Like REALLY REALLY sparsely populated. Yukon-Koyukuk census area, the largest county equivalent in the U.S., is 1,000 square miles bigger than Montana, and 10,000 sq miles bigger than Germany. However, Germany has 83,000,000 people, and Montana has 1 million people, while Yukon Koyukuk has a mind-numbing population of 5,588 people. Even weirder, Guttenberg, a town in NJ, has an area 595,220 smaller than Yukon-Koyukuk, while at the same time having a population more than 2 time's that of Yukon-Koyukuk.
JetPunker180
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Level 54
May 5, 2021
A tree in Landi Kotal has been chained and officially arrested since 1898. This happened when James Squid, a British officer thought the tree was moving towards him after drinking alcohol.

Source is this

InfiniteBulk
+1
Level 65
May 11, 2021
Now that is some juicy stuff.
McKenzieFam
+1
Level 63
Aug 4, 2022
wow
ooftownroad
+3
Level 61
May 5, 2021
The United States of America can be used in the same way as the United Kingdom of Europe
ooftownroad
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Level 61
May 5, 2021
i think
FlyingG
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Level 67
May 5, 2021
not neccessarily
HydratedMite
+1
Level 65
Apr 19, 2024
Yeah, United Kingdom of Afro-Eurasia makes more sense
LuigiDood227
+1
Level 64
May 6, 2021
During the Lewis and Clark expedition, Lewis was accidentally shot by one of his own men
UhmmmACYSHUALY
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Level 37
May 7, 2021
The top upvoted post in r/Armenia is "Potato." I know because I posted it
1ProximaCentauri
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Level 55
May 8, 2021
@673 shows how much more phony the world has become, shout out to all those kids like me who do not use their phone for more than 30 min per day(I never use phones, at least for non-educational purposes)
JWatson24
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Level 71
May 8, 2021
Turkey (technically the Ottoman Empire) legalized homosexuality in 1858, more than 100 years before the United Kingdom (1982, although England and Wales legalized it in 1967) and the United States (2003, although once again laws varied by state).
Malbaby
+1
Level 71
Oct 2, 2021
69 countries still find homosexuality illegal.
SpencerGT
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Level 67
Oct 9, 2022
That teenager has the same foresight as me, but far more freedom.
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