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966
In his final years, actor Marlon Brando spent a lot of time in AOL chat rooms, having political arguments with strangers and being frequently banned for foul language.
967
As of 2012, Goldman Sachs had 12,000 people with the title "Vice President", which was more than 1/3rd of their employees.
968
A blue whale consumes about 1000 kilograms of krill every day. That's about 1 million individual krill per day, or nearly 30 billion krill in an eighty year lifespan.
969
Elon Musk's friendship with Google founder Larry Page ended over a disagreement about AI. When Musk expressed concern about the dangers of AI destroying humanity, Page accused Musk of being "specieist", irrationally preferring humans over future digital life forms.
970
The tip of a bullwhip is thought to be the first object designed by humans to break the sound barrier. The whip's telltale "crack" is actually a small sonic boom.
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Quizmaster
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Level ∞
Mar 18, 2024
#966. Sound familiar?
Quizmaster
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Level ∞
Mar 27, 2024
#967 source:

https://www.goldmansachs.com/media-relations/in-the-news/archive/nyt-op-ed-response.html

Interest1ngFacts
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Level 17
Apr 11, 2024
Tokyo wasn't officially founded until 1889. By 1920, it had only around 3.7 million people. A hundred years later, and that number had swelled to around 37 million, and it has become the world's largest city (but you won't see that on most of JetPunk...)
FreeStater
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Level 66
Apr 11, 2024
Worth noting that it already had a million people by 1720.
Interest1ngFacts
+1
Level 17
Apr 11, 2024
Yeah
Interest1ngFacts
+1
Level 17
Apr 11, 2024
Around 943,538,641 people live in megacities globally. I used a range of sources for my calculations, so this could vary significantly.
Interest1ngFacts
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Level 17
Apr 12, 2024
Additionally, these were the cities I counted as “megacities” (metro area population of 10 million or more):

New York City

Los Angeles

Mexico City

Bogota

Lima

Buenos Aires

Sao Paulo

Rio de Janeiro

Cairo

Lagos

Kinshasa

Johannesburg

London

Istanbul

Moscow

Paris

Tehran

Karachi

Lahore

Mumbai

New Delhi

Kolkata

Bangalore

Hyderabad, India

Chennai

Dhaka

Bangkok

Ho Chi Minh City

Jakarta

Shenzhen

Shanghai

Hangzhou

Guangzhou

Chongqing

Chengdu

Xi’an

Wuhan

Beijing

Tianjin

Changsha

Xiamen

Seoul

Osaka

Nagoya

Tokyo

Manila

JohnnyYeet
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Level 57
Apr 11, 2024
Rodney King, the man famous for the 1992 Los Angeles riots, was found dead at the bottom of his swimming pool 28 years to the day his father Ronald King was found dead in his bathtub.
SirPhilippines
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Level 65
Apr 11, 2024
The One World Trade Center was built 1,776 feet tall.
Interest1ngFacts
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Level 17
Apr 12, 2024
The proposed Legends Tower would be the new tallest skyscraper in the United States, taller than One World Trade Center. But it’s not in New York. It’s not in Chicago. It’s not in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Dallas, Seattle, or Miami. No, the proposed location is Oklahoma City.

OKLAHOMA. FREAKIN’. CITY.

Xtrordinary
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Level 59
Apr 16, 2024
whats wrong with Oklahoma City
Interest1ngFacts
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Level 17
Apr 16, 2024
It’s nothing and not currently deserving of the nation’s tallest building. Like everyone in other countries will continue to think the US’s tallest skyscraper is in New York because that makes sense, but when someone says “it’s actually in Oklahoma City now” they’re going to say “Where? What even is that?”
ooftownroad
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Level 61
Apr 16, 2024
91% of Jetpunkers know OKC, and they're really the only ones to be asking that question
Interest1ngFacts
+1
Level 17
Apr 18, 2024
Hahahaha
JetPunker180
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Level 54
Apr 13, 2024
Although the core of a wooden pencil is commonly referred to as "lead", wooden pencils do not contain the chemical element lead, nor have they ever contained it; "black lead" was formerly a name of graphite, which is commonly used for pencil leads.
Interest1ngFacts
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Level 17
Apr 13, 2024
Adding onto this:

If you think about it, every part of a wooden pencil except for the paint and the little aluminum guard at the end comes from a tree. The wood comes from a tree, the rubber eraser is made of latex secreted by trees, and the graphite–which is actually just a stage in the formation of coal–comes from trees.

Interest1ngFacts
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Level 17
Apr 13, 2024
Also, you can light a piece of mechanical pencil graphite on fire by holding it flat against and across both terminals of a 9-volt battery for several seconds. (The hard part is holding it steady, especially because it gets really hot really fast)

(don't ask how I know this)

Interest1ngFacts
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Level 17
Apr 13, 2024
Anyone seen the news this evening? This is insanity
McKenzieFam
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Level 63
Apr 13, 2024
Iran?

Oh boy.

You'll want to keep an eye on this

Fianchetto
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Level 73
Apr 14, 2024
Yeah I saw that… we’ll see where this goes
FreeStater
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Level 66
Apr 14, 2024
Technically, the Philippine legislature does not meet in Manila. The Senate meets in Pasay and the House of Representatives meets in Quezon City.
Tinny7
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Level 57
Apr 14, 2024
Even though the British use the metric system, all of their road signage is in miles per hour. Also, their gas is sold in liters, but its efficiency is measured in miles per gallon.
Interest1ngFacts
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Level 17
Apr 15, 2024
Probably because a lot of their cars are likely American brands
ooftownroad
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Level 61
Apr 15, 2024
I've been there, and the only real common american brand is Ford. Most of them are local british brands like Vauxhall, or european brands like Renault.
FreeStater
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Level 66
Apr 14, 2024
You probably know Bloemfontein as the judicial capital of South Africa, but the country's highest court, the Constitutional Court, is actually located in Johannesburg.
DawnX
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Level 50
Apr 15, 2024
South Africa actually has a fourth capital, Pietermaritzburg, which is home to the national archives
ooftownroad
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Level 61
Apr 15, 2024
south africa trying to choose a capital challenge (impossible)
DawnX
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Level 50
Apr 16, 2024
Fun Fact: The German Supreme Court is located in Karlsruhe so if Bloemfontein is a capital of South Africa, then Karlsruhe should also be counted as a German capital
ooftownroad
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Level 61
Apr 16, 2024
But south africa has to be different
Interest1ngFacts
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Level 17
Apr 17, 2024
I’d say South Africa has earned the right to be “different”, wouldn’t you?
McKenzieFam
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Level 63
Apr 15, 2024
By my calculations (which are very back-of-the-envelope and took me about 1 minute after some assumptions), JetPunk should reach 1 billion takes sometime between July 1 and July 5.

Let's see how this comment ages

ooftownroad
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Level 61
Apr 15, 2024
In the Lushootseed language, the word "Yu?qw" means "Old Salmon that spawned and is to die soon"
DawnX
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Level 50
Apr 15, 2024
Foreign Workers make up 88% of the United Arab Emirates's Population
Interest1ngFacts
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Level 17
Apr 15, 2024
During mass urbanization in early 19th-century America, hundreds of thousands of new city-dwellers found themselves lacking entertainment. Out of this boredom arose the sport of "pedestrianism", wherein people would literally just watch other people walk. The phenomenon became very popular in the US, eventually spreading to Canada and Australia. The sports betting industry began to fund pedestrianism, and large tournaments and competitions were even held. Thousands would flock to arenas to watch some of the best pedestrians from around the world walk around a track. It was huge! Eventually, the rise of cycling would cause pedestrianism to fade as a national interest, but it still remains an interesting period in sports history.
Dollyfroggy
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Level 60
Apr 15, 2024
Tonga is the only country with its letters in reverse alphabetic order. No countries have their letters in alphabetic order.

AbcdefGhijklmNOpqrsTuvwxyz

Interest1ngFacts
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Level 17
Apr 15, 2024
that's actually amazing, how long did that take you to figure out?
ooftownroad
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Level 61
Apr 15, 2024
If I had to guess, they woke up from an after school nap in a cold sweat at 3:00 AM, one sock off, covers forming an impossible shape, one airpod in Uzbekistan and the other in Montenegro. They sat up, sprinted to their computer, hastily opened www.jetpunk.com, but then a monster came from the deep. It was Antijeppy! He chased after them, maneuvering around furniture and obstacles. They raced into the garage, and found their shiny new 2020 BMW X5 parked there. They fumbled for the keys as Antijeppy closes in. Closer. Closer. Closer. Then, they found the right key, and WHOOSH! Jeppy comes in from around the corner! The battle rages on for ages as Dollyfroggy goes out. They get on the freeway and think they're safe. A few hours go by, and all seems well. But then from around the corner, comes a mysterious shadowy figure. Bullet holes smash the windows and damage the doors, but Dolly manages to crash into a building with a computer, thus posting their fact. But unfortunately, he returned.
McKenzieFam
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Level 63
Apr 15, 2024
perhaps Dollyfroggy woke up in a cold sweat at 3:00 AM, one sock off, their bedcovers forming the shape of Tajikistan, with one and only one thought in their mind: what countries have their letters in reverse alphabetical order? They sat at their desk for hours, frantically scratching out country names one by one as they find time and time again that countries don't have letters in reverse alphabetical order. Finally, by 5:00 AM, in the depths of despair, Dollyfroggy sadly writes the word 'Tonga' on their paper pad and depressedly counts the letters. Oh joy! Reverse alphabetical order! Dollyfroggy succeeded!
ooftownroad
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Level 61
Apr 15, 2024
The Antijeppy lurks within
Interest1ngFacts
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Level 17
Apr 15, 2024
I love this community
McKenzieFam
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Level 63
Apr 16, 2024
It's the greatest community on the site!
JohnnyYeet
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Level 57
Apr 15, 2024
Some of the US's founding fathers were extremely young during the Revolutionary War. Marquis de Lafayette was 18, James Monroe was 18, Henry Lee III was 20, Nathan Hale was 21, Aaron Burr was 20, and Alexander Hamilton was 21.
ooftownroad
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Level 61
Apr 15, 2024
Egypt in 2024 has more people than the Mongol Empire did in 1279
ooftownroad
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Level 61
Apr 16, 2024
Guyana is the only country in South America to have a Protestant majority
ooftownroad
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Level 61
Apr 16, 2024
From 1994-2007, Brett Favre was the only starter quarterback for the packers
ooftownroad
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Level 61
Apr 16, 2024
Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan share the same vowel sequence and I just thought that was cool

UzbEkIstAn

tUrkmEnIstAn

ooftownroad
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Level 61
Apr 16, 2024
There are 797 cities in India named Rampur
ooftownroad
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Level 61
Apr 16, 2024
The northernmost and southernmost towns in the continental us both have populations above 2,500
ooftownroad
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Level 61
Apr 16, 2024
Rome is further east than venice

Tampa is further west than all of mainland south america

ooftownroad
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Level 61
Apr 16, 2024
Caracol, Belize had over 100,000 people in 800 BC.

No city in Belize in 2024 has over 75,000

I'm on a roll

DawnX
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Level 50
Apr 18, 2024
Caana at Caracol has also been the tallest building in Belize since the 9th century and still is the tallest at 43m
Interest1ngFacts
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Level 17
Apr 18, 2024
That should be an interesting fact
Neodymium
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Level 59
Apr 16, 2024
factor in

Rama-

and -pore

-puri

-puru

-puram

-pura

Neodymium
+1
Level 59
Apr 18, 2024
You named 922 cities, with a total population of 1,763,772 (0.04% of the world urban population).

( i did the above)

ooftownroad
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Level 61
Apr 18, 2024
mm hm
DawnX
+2
Level 50
Apr 19, 2024
cityquiz.io?
Neodymium
+2
Level 59
Apr 25, 2024
yep
ooftownroad
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Level 61
Apr 17, 2024
Illinois has the highest number of cities that share their name with a state capital of any other state with 24
DawnX
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Level 50
Apr 17, 2024
Montgomery, Phoenix, (Little Rock), (Denver), Hartford, Dover, Atlanta, Topeka, Frankfort, Augusta, Annapolis, Lansing, (Saint Paul), Lincoln, Concord, Trenton, Albany, Raleigh, Bismarck, Columbus, Salem, Harrisburg, (Providence), Columbia, Nashville, Richmond, Charleston, Madison

24 without, 28 with unincorporated communities

ooftownroad
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Level 61
Apr 18, 2024
Speciesist is spelled wrong
Interest1ngFacts
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Level 17
Apr 18, 2024
Yeah I commented that earlier but I think after a certain window passes, QM doesn’t update interesting facts at all until he’s ready to post the next batch of facts
Xtrordinary
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Level 59
Apr 20, 2024
fact 909 still says 'as as' instead of 'as a'
Interest1ngFacts
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Level 17
Apr 18, 2024
Regarding #968, with all those whales in the ocean, I wonder what any one individual krill’s odds are of being eaten by a blue whale any day
DawnX
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Level 50
Apr 18, 2024
10000-25000 blue whales \ 700 trn krill \ 1m krill per day

700 trn / 1 mil = 1 in 700 mil chance of being eaten by specific blue whale every day

700 mil / 10000 or 25000 = 1 in 70000 chance of being eaten by any blue whale every day for [10000 blue whales] or 1 in 28000 chance for [25000 blue whales]

the average lifespan of krill is 10 years

(69999/70000)^3652 = 94.92% chance of never being eaten by blue whale (entire life) so 1 in 18,67 chance of being eaten by blue whale (entire life), 5,08% of krill die by blue whale for [10000 blue whales]

(27999/28000)^3652 = 87.77% chance of never being eaten by blue whale (entire life) so 1 in 7,18 chance of being eaten by blue whale (entire life), 12,23% of krill die by blue whale for [25000 blue whales]

the chance as a krill of being eaten by a blue whale (somewhere between 5,08 and 12,23%) is about as high as being killed by another human (intentional or not), as a human (about 7,7%)

Interest1ngFacts
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Level 17
Apr 18, 2024
that's amazing!
Neodymium
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Level 59
Apr 25, 2024
glad you did 3652 instead of 3650
Interest1ngFacts
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Level 17
Apr 18, 2024
Albuquerque has around 300,000 more people than Vladivostok.
ooftownroad
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Level 61
Apr 18, 2024
There is an official term for the 762-767th digits of pi, which is just 9s. It’s called Feynman’s Point.
ooftownroad
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Level 61
Apr 18, 2024
and as usual all my facts can be checked with a quick google search
Dimei
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Level 63
Apr 19, 2024
The official state vegetable of Oklahoma is the watermelon.
Interest1ngFacts
+2
Level 17
Apr 19, 2024
That’s a fruit
DawnX
+4
Level 50
Apr 19, 2024
Oklahoma doesn't seem to care
Interest1ngFacts
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Level 17
Apr 19, 2024
A new urban problem: dense areas and cities around the world are facing the issue of severe subsidence. Translation: they're sinking. Mexico City, New Delhi, Jakarta, most of the US East Coast, Tokyo, Cairo, nearly half of China's cities, the Netherlands, significant areas of California, and many more areas are all slowly sinking below sea level. This is due to a number of factors. In coastal areas like Jakarta, it's mostly due to sea level rise. In areas like California, it's more of a tectonic problem. In China, the main causes are groundwater over-extraction and rapid urban development. Mexico City is in a similar situation. In New York City: parts of Manhattan were built on a landfill, the sea is rising, and the massive buildings atop the ground are simply too heavy for the ground to hold them. The East Coast is eroding and also sinking due to urban overdevelopment.

It's insane.

McKenzieFam
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Level 63
Apr 19, 2024
Sheesh. City Suicide
FreeStater
+1
Level 66
Apr 19, 2024
I'm guessing a couple in Yapan, as well?
Interest1ngFacts
+2
Level 17
Apr 21, 2024
Shanghai has actually sunk over 3 meters since 1920.
Bhanav
+2
Level 46
Apr 22, 2024
Bernard shaw and Bob Dylan are the only two people to have an Oscar award AND a Nobel prize.
DawnX
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Level 50
Apr 22, 2024
In 1880, "Minnie" was the 5th most popular female first name in the US with 1746 kids born in 1880 in the US being named Minnie. As of 2022, it's barely in the Top 3000 with 55 kids born in the US in 2022 named Minnie
DawnX
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Level 50
Apr 25, 2024
In 2022 in the US, the name "Kacey" was given to exactly 202 girls and 202 boys. (This is also the case with Zohar (5) Viridian (5) Taren (5) Superior (5) Shaden (5) Nike (5) Maycen (5) Martine (5) Kirian (5) Kindred (5) Kilyn (5) Khamil (5) Kesiah (5) Keimoni (5) Kavani (5) Germaine (5) Fendi (5) Carmi (5) Breslin (5) Abiyah (5) Trhue (6) Oreoluwa (6) Lynox (6) Kapree (6) Jaspen (6) Goodness (6) Renny (7) Mauri (7) Evryn (7) Bellemy (7) Jerusalem (8) Crosley (8) Coley (8) Aaris (8) Syven (9) Nabi (9) Khodi (9) Hannan (9) Derin (9) Kentley (10) Nima (11) Psalms (12) Fortune (12) Lennex (13) Mercury (14) Devine (14) Bayler (21) Chosyn (24) Jayme (28) ) Honorable Mention: Javion (M) and Jayvion (M) at 119, Aubri (F) and Aubrey at 135, Darius (M, 400) and Dario (M, 402), Ila (F) and Iyla (F) at 428, Sylvie (F, 718) and Sylvia (F, 719), Valerie (F, 1974) and Valeria (F, 1994)
Interest1ngFacts
+1
Level 17
Apr 22, 2024
You might think the only way to change time zones is to go west or east, but you'd be wrong! Because around 90% of China lives in the eastern third of the country, all of China is on one time zone, China Standard Time (UTC+8). This means you could travel directly south from China into Nepal Time (UTC+5.75). You could lose 2 hours and 15 minutes without changing longitude! Pretty interesting.
McKenzieFam
+1
Level 63
Apr 23, 2024
doesn't India use a 15 minute plus or minus compared to Nepal? you could travel straight south from Tibet, enter Nepal and lose 2 hrs 15 mins, keep going until you reach India, and gain 15 minutes back again
Interest1ngFacts
+1
Level 17
Apr 23, 2024
India's time zone is UTC+#:30 (I don't know what the hour is but I know there's a half hour involved as well. That's probably why there's the 15 minute difference.
Neodymium
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Level 59
Apr 25, 2024
and since you could go into nepal at an angle, you could go against the rotation and lose time or whatevr
Xtrordinary
+2
Level 59
Apr 27, 2024
Just go south from the Line Islands to go from utc+14 to utc -10
ooftownroad
+1
Level 61
Apr 22, 2024
Despite being over 1800 miles long, there are only 14 settlements on the nizhnyaya tunguska river.

Source google maps

ooftownroad
+1
Level 61
Apr 25, 2024
Maybe even cooler, the Olenyok River only has FOUR settlements, despite being over 1400 miles long
McKenzieFam
+1
Level 63
Apr 25, 2024
that is interesting. most rivers have plenty of settlements. of course, being in Siberia probably helps
Geographystar
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Level 67
Apr 23, 2024
There have been 6 U.S. Presidential elections where both major party candidates were registered in the same state, and in 4 of them both candidates were from New York. (In the other 2 both candidates were from Illinois and Ohio)
ooftownroad
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Level 61
Apr 24, 2024
You probably know that Mules are bred with a Jack and a Mare, but what about a Jenny and a Stallion? They're called Hinnies.
DawnX
+1
Level 50
Apr 28, 2024
Fun fact: in German, Mules are called Maultiere, literally "mouth animals"
Interest1ngFacts
+4
Level 17
Apr 24, 2024
i need some new interesting facts pages soon i'm getting this weird itch
McKenzieFam
+3
Level 63
Apr 25, 2024
Yeah we need more
Interest1ngFacts
+2
Level 17
Apr 26, 2024
In November 2022, a Tesla on autopilot caused an 8-car pileup on the San Francisco Bay Bridge. The self-driving vehicle turned into the leftmost lane and abruptly braked, causing 7 cars to chain rear-end it within around 20 seconds. Traffic was blocked on the bridge for over an hour.
Neodymium
+1
Level 59
Apr 27, 2024
Blud he is NOT putting info about a crash as a interesting fact
DawnX
+1
Level 50
Apr 26, 2024
Iran has more ski resorts than Colorado
McKenzieFam
+2
Level 63
Apr 27, 2024
The song 'A Spoonful of Sugar' from the 1964 Mary Poppins film was inspired by the polio vaccine.
ooftownroad
+3
Level 61
Apr 27, 2024
84% of the incorporated communities in the US have less than 10k people
DawnX
+1
Level 50
Apr 27, 2024
Minnesota has the most incorporated places in comparison to census designated places. 93.4% of census places in MN are incorporated. IA is second with 91.6% and NE is third with 89.7%. At the bottom are NV with 14.3%, CT with 14%, NH with 13% and HI with 0%
DawnX
+2
Level 50
Apr 27, 2024
(not 100% sure) The longest census place name in the United States is "University of California-Santa Barbara" with 34 characters and 16 syllables
JetPunker180
+1
Level 54
Apr 27, 2024
Mount Erebus in Antarctica produce 80g of gold everyday. It costs about 4000 dollars!!
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