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The shotgun Ernest Hemingway used to kill himself was purchased from Abercrombie and Fitch.

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Ernest Hemingway, his father, two of his siblings, and one granddaughter all committed suicide.

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Since 1820, the largest margin of victory in a U.S. Presidential race was Warren G. Harding's landslide defeat of James Cox in 1920 by 26 percentage points in the popular vote. Sadly, Harding's popularity didn't last. He is widely considered one of the worst Presidents in U.S. history.

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In 1920, Franklin D. Roosevelt ran for Vice President as the running mate of James M. Cox but lost in one of the worst electoral landslides of all time.

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There's a national park named W in Benin, named for the shape of the River Niger in that area.

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Mar 22, 2023

Credit @Qy for #833 and #834 and @ooftownroad for #835.

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Mar 15, 2023

Fact: In the USA alone, all the combined parking spaces are as big as the state of West Virginia!

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Apr 3, 2023

Paved paradise and put up a parking lot indeed...

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Mar 15, 2023

Fact: If all ants were to pile up in 1 flat plain, it would be as big as the entire state of Minnesota!

And, if it were to pile up into 1 giant ball, it would be as wide and tall as 860 meters!

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Mar 22, 2023

And how exactly, does anyone know how much ants exist in this world, and can measure them?

I’m really skeptical of this fact.

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Mar 22, 2023

Search it up, scientists believe about 20 quadrillion ants are on earth, when I searched that most sources say its 20 quadrillion and counting.

Even videos say it is!

" They used standardized methods for collecting and counting ants such as pitfall traps and leaf litter samples. As you can imagine, this is often tedious work.

From all this, we estimate there are approximately 20 quadrillion ants on Earth."

from sciencealert.com

pls just believe it

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Mar 31, 2023

Even videos say it. Your choice, believe or use your brain to think.

Sciencealert is

99% scam / click bait

and only 1% science.

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Mar 15, 2023

Serbia has a panhandle less than 100 feet across

Zagreb is the only capital to start with Z. It's also the only one to end in B

Cashews grow from an apple

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Mar 15, 2023

When will y'all stop reposting facts?

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Mar 15, 2023

I added a new one

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Mar 15, 2023

And besides, i found these facts via own research.

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Mar 15, 2023

…. so?

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Mar 15, 2023

So I'm proud of them

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Mar 15, 2023

???

Level 60

Mar 22, 2023

1. Cool I guess

2. Most JetPunkers know this, or at the very least wouldn’t find this surprising.

3. It’s called a cashew apple for a reason.

Nice though that you’ve done your own research!

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Dec 4, 2023

2. The end with B one? That's fairly niche. Plus, JetPunk shouldn't be limited to the 'elite' JetPunkers.

3. Not everyone knows about cashew apples.

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Mar 15, 2023

A single strand of DNA holds 218 petabytes. To put that into perspective, that's 218 million gigabytes. Even crazier, your brain can only hold 2.5 petabytes!

If you counted how much information was in all of your DNA, it would count up to 697 BILLION PETABYTES, OR 6.976e+17 (or 69760000000000000) GIGABYTES.

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Jun 13, 2023

Or 69.76 yottabytes.

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Dec 25, 2023

Someone needs to invent a way to use DNA to think. We'd be waaaaaay smarter

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Mar 15, 2023

Technically, Vatican´s biggest city is also their smallest

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Mar 15, 2023

Same with Singapore

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Nov 14, 2023

Well, it's called a city state for a reason

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Mar 15, 2023

Fun Facts:

1. The westernmost point of Canada is closer to South Korea than it is to the easternmost point.

2. Parts of Alaska extend North, South, East, and West of Hawaii.

3. The US intentionally detonated an atomic bomb over Indiana in the 1970s.

4. More people speak Chinese as a second language than English as a first language.

5. Because of exclaves and intricacies, Russia actually shares a longer border with Finland than with Kazakhstan.

6. After just 3 moves in chess, there are already over 5 billion possible positions.

7. An Olympic delegation from Quebec actually competed separately from the rest of Canada in the 1952 Winter Olympics.

8. In the country of Georgia is so diverse that only 22.58% of the population actually speaks Georgian.

9. Switzerland actually has no official flag- the classic "red cross" is only its de facto flag.

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Mar 15, 2023

Don't engage the trolls, guys.

Level 61

Mar 20, 2023

Get this comment to 100 likes. Isn’t it illegal on jetpunk to deliberately post false facts?

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Mar 21, 2023

Unless JetPunk has its own police squad, I don't see how it's illegal... certainly against the rules, though.

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Mar 21, 2023

Don't engage the trolls, Qy.

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Mar 22, 2023

I’m skeptical of like 90% of these.

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Dec 25, 2023

JetPunk Police Chief Quizmaster and Sheriff Stewart, armed (with banishment guns) and ready to uphold the Interesting Facts.

Oh, and the law.

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Mar 15, 2023

From 1984 to 1994, South Africa had a tricameral parliament.

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Mar 15, 2023

Lyndon Johnson died exactly two days into Richard Nixon's second term.

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Mar 15, 2023

The Westernmost point of Florida is farther west than parts of Wisconsin

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Mar 16, 2023

and vice versa

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Mar 16, 2023

Minnesota is the only US state that is Quadruply Landlocked

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Mar 18, 2023

I think you forgot Canada

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Mar 18, 2023

not counting canada

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Mar 21, 2023

why would you not count canada

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Mar 21, 2023

Because it's not a state

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Mar 21, 2023

May as well be

Level 60

Mar 22, 2023

This doesn’t make any sense. By that logic you can also say that it has a coast (if Canada doesn’t exist).

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Mar 22, 2023

Okay. If canada is counted as land, but provinces are not counted, the Minnesota is quadruply landlocked

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Mar 18, 2023

Pepsi were once the sixth largest power in the world. In 1989, the USSR traded 17 submarines, a cruiser, a frigate and a destroyer in order for Pepsi to be sold in the Soviet Union.

Level 59

Mar 18, 2023

Check your source....it was only proposed and never occured.

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Mar 18, 2023

1/3 of raspberries come from Serbia

Belarus means white Russia.

Music competitions were part of the Olympics from 1912 to 1948

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Dec 25, 2023

So was Art

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Mar 18, 2023

Greece and Qatar are the only countries typeable (typable?) using the left hand. There are none with the right hand

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Apr 12, 2023

I can type every country using my left hand

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Mar 19, 2023

The Bishop of Orlando once jokingly claimed himself to be the Bishop of the Moon—and he may be right. Under canon law, newly found territories are the property of the diocese from where the expedition departed, in this case Apollo 11.

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Mar 20, 2023

Really? You believe we've been to the moon? Yeah okay that's realistic

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Mar 20, 2023

UP was given to Michigan as a result of the Toledo War between Ohio and Michigan.

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Mar 20, 2023

There's a town called X-box in Mexico

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Mar 21, 2023

This comment section has gone down the pan. No wonder Quizmaster doesn't bother to review the facts posted anymore.

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Mar 21, 2023

Not Really. There's definitely a few culprits to the instability with fake facts and being toxic.

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Mar 21, 2023

If someone ought to be named, Zzineohp is the worst offender

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Mar 21, 2023

Yeah that guys sucks they should ban him

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Dec 25, 2023

Check out the likes on that comment....bruh

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Mar 22, 2023

Fun fact:

This is a true fact.

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Mar 22, 2023

Inferno has wild punishments for the wicked. Those who commit suicide / self-harm are doomed to be trees with fragile branches, the homosexual are doomed to forever lie on hot sand, excessive flatterers are condemned to a river of literal crap, astrologers / wizards have their heads twisted backwards, and the traitorous are frozen beneath a lake of ice.

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Dec 4, 2023

I'm not sure you can call all of those groups of people wicked...

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Mar 22, 2023

King Alexander of Greece died from a monkey bite.

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Mar 23, 2023

~~skill issue~~

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May 10, 2023

Fun fact, there are more Minecraft Accounts than books on the planet.