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In 1979, Jimmy Carter signed Executive Order 12170, which used "emergency powers" to place sanctions on Iran. More than 40 years later, the "emergency" is still in effect.
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During WWII, the Soviet Union executed an estimated 158,000 of its own soldiers for desertion. The United States executed one.
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According to the Economist, it costs $438,000 to jail a person for one year at Riker's Island prison in New York City. There are 1.6 guards for every inmate.
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The state of Maine was once part of Massachusetts.
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During the 1950s the Cincinnati Reds officially changed their name to the "Redlegs" because "Reds" sounded communist.
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Quizmaster
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Dec 29, 2021
Credit @mikeb for #740. Thanks mikeb!
Ranntern
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Oct 31, 2021
I have some

Taiwan doesn't only claim mainland China, but also the entire former Qing dynasty. That means it claims more than 382 times more land than it actually holds, which is much more the what the British held.

Despite what you might think, Vatican City is not the least populated capital. That goes to Ngerulmud in Palau

England is the only British country where English isn't an official language(Note-I'm not British and this information comes from Wikipedia)

You've probably never heard of Hulunbuir. It's the biggest city in the world by area being bigger than the UK. However, not all of this area actually looks like a city. This is because of how China governs its cities.

You might think Shanghai is the biggest city in China. That's not true by city proper. The correct answer would be Chongqing, which like the previous one is only because of how China governs its cities(NOTE-only some sources say Chongqing is the biggest city proper in the world. Most say Shanghai)

TheNatureThread
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Level 65
Oct 31, 2021
Hulunbuir is actually the second biggest by area, China's Nagqu in Tibet is even bigger.
Ranntern
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Level 57
Oct 31, 2021
Thanks for fact-checking
MG17
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Level 43
Nov 18, 2021
I think there is one in Greenland which is the biggest one. Brazil used to have the biggest one, but others passed it. ;-;
LudwigVonKoopa
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Level 58
Nov 14, 2021
Real Life Lore intensifies*
imb0916
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Level 28
Nov 16, 2021
Pronounce "Ngerulmud".
SirPhilippines
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Level 65
Nov 17, 2021
ŋɛˈɾulmud
ArhamZohan
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Level 28
Dec 9, 2021
nerulmud
LawnchairLarry
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Level 53
Jan 3, 2022
nyeighrlmughd
BirdMaster22
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Level 45
Feb 8, 2022
Ngermuold?
MG17
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Level 43
Nov 18, 2021
And this from recognized nations. West Island (Cocos/Keeling Islands), Adamstown (Pitcairn Islands), and King Edward Point (South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands) are even smaller. King Edward Point, having 18 people.
MG17
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Nov 1, 2021
Macapá, on the Brazilian state of Amapá, is known as the capital of the middle of the world, as the Equator pass on the city. Next to the Ground 0, is the Milton de Souza Corrêa Stadium, popularly known as Zerão. The Equator, pass exactly where is the midfield line. This means: two teams playing a match, in this stadium, are playing soccer on two different hemispheres. But on the system WGS84, the midfield line is 50 meters above Equator.
MG17
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Nov 1, 2021
Anna Creek Station, is a farm on Australia, which is bigger than Israel, and has almost the size of England.
ooftownroad
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Level 61
Jan 7, 2022
I suggested that one earlier
imb0916
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Level 28
Nov 2, 2021
Here's a fun one:

During home football games, the University of Nebraska's Memorial Stadium would be the third most populous city in Nebraska. (Average attendance is around 90,000 people).

AchillesFirstStand
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Mar 22, 2022
Similarly, Penn State's Beaver Stadium is more populated than all but three cities in Pennsylvania during big games.
DjGuacBoi
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Level 32
Nov 4, 2021
737 for anyone curious was Eddie Slovik
JennySewo
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Nov 7, 2021
Over 100 cities and towns in India have been renamed or respelled since India's Independence. Some include:

Chandernagore -> Chandannagar

Calcutta -> Kolkata

Calicut -> Kozhikode

Allahabad -> Prayagraj

Gauhati -> Guwahati

Bangalore -> Bengaluru

Madras -> Chennai

Bijapur -> Vijayapura

Waltair -> Visakhapatnam

Mysore - Mysuru

Cawnpore -> Kanpur

Benaras -> Varanasi

ItzIngenious
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Nov 12, 2021
Bombay->Mumbai
interopia
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Level 85
Nov 17, 2021
I'm sad about Calcutta. They should have kept that one. (Kinda like how Burma is cooler than Myanmar.)
Geographystar
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Nov 8, 2021
I'm not 100% sure if this is true, or if all or part of it is an internet rumor, but in 2014, the Washington state legislature officially renamed Mt. Rainier to Mount Seattle Seahawks until the Superbowl ended a few days later. Supposedly, this was in response to Colorado temporarily renaming 52 of it's mountains to the names of 52 of the Broncos players for the same event.
1ProximaCentauri
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Level 55
Nov 9, 2021
Lol. How I dream for the day when the great lakes are renamed to Lake Goff, Lake Swift, Lake Hockenson etc.
MG17
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Level 43
Nov 14, 2021
Ok, that’s what I call of loving the sport.
1ProximaCentauri
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Nov 15, 2021
My wish isnt gonna happen now though. Goff is literally the worst starting QB in the NFL
MG17
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Level 43
Nov 18, 2021
Should there be Belo Horizonte avenues called “Hulk”, “Diego Costa”, “Nacho Fernandez” “Zaracho”, “Savarino”, “Arana”, or “Everson”? Lol (we don’t talk since a while...)
Geographystar
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Nov 8, 2021
6 of the 100 largest U.S. companies have their founder as their CEO, Amazon, Dell, Facebook, FedEx, Capital One, and Tesla.
NotmiandKiKi
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Level 79
Nov 11, 2021
Case Tesla is a bit dubious. Company was founded 1st of July, 2003 but Elon Musk joined company next year.

They have decided to call Musk co-founder despite him coming to company over half year later.

https://www.cnet.com/news/tesla-motors-founders-now-there-are-five/

ItzIngenious
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Nov 12, 2021
Quizmaster has more takes than all but four countries: Indonesia, United States, India, and China.
ItzIngenious
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Level 60
Nov 12, 2021
*All but four countries population
TheNatureThread
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Level 65
Nov 13, 2021
Quizmaster can unironically start a country!
MG17
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Level 43
Nov 14, 2021
More than Brazil... no...
Gllombfek
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Level 53
Oct 21, 2022
Brazil has now dropped from 5th to 7th place in population, behind Pakistan and Nigeria.
Pullasorsa
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Nov 13, 2021
Could some of these make it?
ChineseChen
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Level 66
Nov 14, 2021
Probably
carys888
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Nov 14, 2021
Bobby Farrell, the lead singer of Boney M, died on 30th December 2010 in St Petersburg, Russia. Coincidentally, he died on the same date and in the same city as Grigori Rasputin, the subject of one of his group's most iconic songs.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Farrell

McKenzieFam
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Nov 15, 2021
1.6 guards for every prisoner?
ItzIngenious
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Level 60
Nov 15, 2021
Indeed. The 1 is for security and the half of guard is to creep the prisoner out.
McKenzieFam
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Level 63
Nov 17, 2021
lol. Imagine being that half a guard
peardestroyer
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Level 57
Nov 24, 2021
what about the other 0.1 guards? hmm
ElementalPixel
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Level 68
Dec 6, 2021
Prison food.
LuigiDood227
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Level 64
Nov 22, 2021
its probably more of a guard prison than a prisoner prison
semisnotcolon
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Level 35
Nov 19, 2021
Fact suggestion: The Builders of Ancient Egyptian Pyramids were paid about 1 Gallon of Beer per day
Tomislav
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Level 42
Nov 21, 2021
Suggestion:

-Bible has about 800 words.

-Chad has about 1 camel for every 2 people

SirPhilippines
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Level 65
Nov 21, 2021
Uh, 800? The Bible has at least 70,000 words. Explain, I might’ve misinterpreted it.
TheNatureThread
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Nov 21, 2021
JetPunk has about 10 quizzes!
LuigiDood227
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Level 64
Nov 22, 2021
seems legit
ElementalPixel
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Level 68
Nov 28, 2021
Based on another comment from the Interesting Quotes page, I'm guessing Tomislav meant 800k words. It doesn't really matter anyways, given that the number of words varies wildly depending on the version you use.
akjlddkjslfsd
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Level 50
Dec 11, 2021
I read about this somewhere a couple of years back. If I remember rightly, the Bible contains 3,566,480 letters and 773,893 words.
Geographystar
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Nov 26, 2021
Despite being one of, if not the, largest and most influential rivers in Western Europe, only 1 national capital in located directly alongside the river, that capital being Vaduz, the capital of Liechtenstein.
TheNatureThread
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Level 65
Nov 26, 2021
And the river is...................
VeryCoolPerson
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Level 48
Nov 27, 2021
The Rhine River
Geographystar
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Level 67
Nov 27, 2021
I can be a bit scatterbrained sometimes...
JohnnyYeet
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Level 57
Nov 28, 2021
And four are on the Danube:

Vienna, Austria

Budapest, Hungary

Bratislava, Slovakia

Belgrade, Serbia

JohnnyYeet
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Nov 28, 2021
Actor Peter Ostrum has only been in one film, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, where he portrayed Charlie Bucket. He is now a veterinarian.
WinXP2001
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Nov 30, 2021
It is illegal for the Nebraska state government to go over budget.
Baxtergrad
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Dec 1, 2021
In 1945, Portugal held three days of national mourning for Adolf Hitler after he commuted suicide. They were the only country to do so.
LuigiDood227
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Level 64
Dec 6, 2021
I am beyond confused since Portugal leaned towards the allies, though never joining them like Spain and the Axis.
ItzIngenious
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Level 60
Dec 1, 2021
In all wars combined, bugs have killed more soldiers than guns and swords.
footballaus
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Level 44
Dec 4, 2021
Here's one if you haven't done it:

Liechtenstein and Uzbekistan are the only countries that are doubly-landlocked

Baxtergrad
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Level 52
Dec 4, 2021
And Uzbekistan is the only country to be stanlocked.
ooftownroad
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Dec 6, 2021
bruh
Geographystar
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Dec 6, 2021
The tallest free-standing structure west of the Mississippi River in the U.S. is a 1,215 foot smokestack in Utah. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennecott_Garfield_Smelter_Stack
ItzIngenious
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Level 60
Dec 8, 2021
If every US state were the size of Rhode Island there would be 2,457 states.
ItzIngenious
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Level 60
Dec 8, 2021
Regina was once called Pile of Bones
ItzIngenious
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Level 60
Dec 8, 2021
Oklahoma and Cambodia have the exact same size
ItzIngenious
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Level 60
Dec 8, 2021
2 out of 3 Americans live within 100 miles of a US border.
ItzIngenious
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Level 60
Dec 8, 2021
Source: North American Maps for Curious Minds (Book)
TheNatureThread
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Level 65
Dec 9, 2021
I have the world version of that book! I didn't know there's a NA version.
ItzIngenious
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Level 60
Dec 9, 2021
It’s new. I’ve also read the world version.
belor
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Level 58
Dec 9, 2021
The Oklahoma/Cambodia fact is really interesting, odd to think about as well!
akjlddkjslfsd
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Level 50
Dec 11, 2021
The moon is receding from us. The distance between the Earth and the moon increases by about one and a half inches per year, which is roughly the rate at which human fingernails grow.
WalkyTalkyBook
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Level 62
Dec 12, 2021
Here's a very interesting one for you:

CBS aired an episode of Diagnosis: Murder titled "Nirvana" on 8 April 1994, the same day Kurt Cobain's body was discovered.

ooftownroad
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Level 61
Dec 13, 2021
yes i am still alive and i have a fact:

A cat named Stubbs was the honorary mayor of the Alaskan town of Talkeetna for 20 years

frogfish
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Level 21
Dec 13, 2021
- A twenty-pound carp has run for office before. I have a poster from that campaign

- Christmas Island built a bridge over a highway specifically for the large population of red crabs to use during migration

- Sharks have existed for longer than trees

- Coelacanths are a type of prehistoric fish. They were believed to be extinct until one was caught off the coast of South Africa in 1938

- Parrotfish eat coral and sleep in a bubble of their own mucus

ooftownroad
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Level 61
Dec 14, 2021
can i see that carp poster
Geographystar
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Level 67
Dec 27, 2021
Eight of the ten largest cities in the U.S. in 1950 have a lower population today then in 1950. The two exceptions are New York and Los Angeles, in case anybody is curious.
IsleAuHaulte
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Level 89
Mar 25, 2022
How did this one particular page become the dumping ground for kids raising their hands with suggestions?
Geographystar
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Level 67
Apr 11, 2022
This was the last page for about 2 months, and the last page is where people normally leave suggestions. Occasionally, the suggestions do actually get made into facts, so it's not in vain.
Emanuelyero
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Level 45
Apr 16, 2023
Fact suggestion:the Battle of Solferino was so bloody that it the International Red Cross's Creater,Henry Durant,was inspired to create the association.
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