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Hawaii is the only U.S. state that produces coffee commercially.

Frederick the Great, king of Prussia, was an example of an "enlightened despot", a non-democratic leader who nevertheless works on behalf of the people.

Some people have claimed that the CIA plotted to assassinate Fidel Castro using an exploding cigar. However, there is no evidence that this was ever seriously proposed.

It is up for debate whether the Nile or the Amazon is the world's longest river.

Despite being an entire continent, Antarctica was one of the last places on Earth to be discovered by humans. It was first sighted by a Russian expedition in 1820.

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Level 71

Apr 23, 2018

Wow they we're cool facts :D

Level 85

Feb 20, 2021

And in the case of #80, downright COLD!

Level 39

Apr 23, 2018

Wow, this is a really cool feature! Thanks for adding this!

+10

Level 78

May 3, 2018

The Quizmaster is an enlightened despot then - this is not meant as an offense, quite on the contrary. Everyone who runs a website is its monarch, at whose discretion it depends how to balance out censorship vs free speech.

Level 75

May 29, 2018

Hoping for some free points to go up a level or 2?

Level 78

May 29, 2018

Rather venting my anger caused by the tyranny of another site.

Level 89

Oct 6, 2018

#78 was attempted by Bugs Bunny on Elmer Fudd on multiple occasions. It doesn't work, but one's teeth dangle and play like a piano.

Level 82

Nov 28, 2022

probably why you rarely see Castro smiling in later photographs.

Level 46

Apr 24, 2019

Quizmaster, can you add Fidel Castro's assassination using a milkshake or Fidel Castro's cow? They're very interesting but I will understand your decision if you don't add it.

Level 64

Aug 10, 2019

Great quiz enjoyed it made me think! Technically you cant fly over Saudi to get to Doha since 2017

Level 68

May 21, 2020

Wrong place, mate.

Level 75

Mar 23, 2020

Regarding fact #76, California is now growing coffee commercially.

Level 79

Jul 3, 2022

Yep, in San Diego

Level 20

Mar 28, 2020

78.... is weird

Level 63

Apr 3, 2020

So about this number 78. There's a question in a quiz somewhere on JetPunk that asks what the CIA was doing with an exploding cigar (or something along those lines). Yet here it says it's false?

Level 85

Feb 20, 2021

Maybe I'm suffering "Mandela Effect" but I vaguely remember it being mentioned in one of Quizmaster's notorious April Fools quizzes, or maybe in a quiz dedicated to these "Interesting Facts."

Level 63

Oct 13, 2020

Oh, and the Nile is 25 kilometers longer than the Amazon.

Level 59

Oct 26, 2020

You can't really measure a river because of the coastline paradox. It depends on the measurement they used to measure each river with. The Coastline Paradox is used to describe how the length of a country's coastline approaches infinity as the measurement used to measure its length gets smaller.

Level 43

Dec 8, 2020

If they use the same unit, there shouldn’t be a problem.

Level 90

Dec 22, 2021

No, the units don't matter - nothing is bigger or smaller because you use meters vs yards vs something else.

The coastline paradox refers to the fact that if you measure a whole rock, your measurement won't factor in all the little nooks and crannies in the rock.

And if you were to measure into the nooks and crannies in the rock, your measurement won't factor in the yet smaller indentations inside the nooks and crannies.

...this goes on until you measure it at the microscopic level.

Level 90

Dec 22, 2021

I would agree that it is somewhat difficult to measure the length of a river, but not necessarily because of the coastline paradox - although it is perhaps a similar paradox.

The issue in measuring the length of a river is in determining the where the river starts and, perhaps moreso, where it ends.

If a river is consistent in width to a cliff where it falls into the ocean, that's perhaps a clear mark of its end, unless the water fall is curved, in which case do you measure to the middle, at the shore lines, the shortest point, longest point?

And when a river widens into an estuary or has a large delta - where does the river end? at the inland most end of the delta/estuary (and where do you draw that line)? or the furthest end of land/deposits? or when you get to the brackish water? or is it where the highest/strongest tides push into it?

Level 61

Apr 19, 2021

nope, a recent expedition found that the Amazon is 20 miles longer

Level 40

May 4, 2021

As an brazillian, I'm proud of #79.

Level 40

Jul 2, 2021

#79 = Left Twix or Right Twix?

Level 69

Dec 30, 2021

is 77 really a fun fact? isnt it kind of, like, just an opinion someone had?

Level 30

Apr 25, 2022

Uranus (1741) was discovered before Antarctica. (1820).

Level 35

Jun 17, 2022

How old are you if Uranus was discovered before Antarctica

Level 82

Nov 28, 2022

The entertaining but implausible book 1421: The Year China Discovered America posits, among many other things, that the Chinese found Antarctica sometime between 1421 and 1423.

Level 47

Jul 14, 2023

Antarctica ‘is’ the last piece of land to be discovered by humans. It is crazy to think that even decades before humans sent probes to space, we discovered every little piece of land on our planet.

I like to imagine what would've happened if there was an unknown continent and humans discovered it only when they sent satellites to space

Level 40

Sep 7, 2023

Hawaii is also the only U.S state that has a union jack in its flag