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Since 1980, India has only won 2 Olympic gold medals.

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Cartagena, Colombia is a colony of a colony of a colony. It was founded by people from Cartagena, Spain which was founded by people from ancient Carthage which was founded by people from Tyre in modern-day Lebanon.

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Four elements are named after the tiny village of Ytterby, Sweden. They are yttrium, ytterbium, erbium, and terbium.

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The U.S. governments owns 79.6% of the land in the state of Nevada.

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The word "arena" derives from "harena", the Latin word for sand. In ancient Roman times, gladiatorial arenas would be covered with sand to absorb the blood that was shed there.

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Level 32

Jul 28, 2019

Actually, India has won 2 olympics gold medals since 1980:

1980 w/ the men's field hockey team and in 2008 w/ Abhinav Bindra in the men's 10m air rifle

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Level ∞

Jul 28, 2019

The English language is so imprecise. My intended meaning of "since 1980" is "after 1980", not "during or after 1980". Both meanings are valid.

Level 71

May 19, 2020

It is not the English Language that is imprecise, You should have said ....... "After 1980 India have only won 1 medal"

Level 89

Jul 3, 2020

Even more precisely he could have said "has".

Level 71

Feb 15, 2021

Teachers pet

Level 60

Jun 7, 2023

Teacher’s pet.*

Level 41

Aug 23, 2021

This has changed to 3 after the Tokyo Olympics held this year. India won the gold medal for javelin throw.

Level 68

Oct 10, 2021

Yeah true. Needs to be updated.

Level 71

Dec 16, 2019

Hmmm, doesn't anyone else find the US government owning 79.6% of the land in the same state as Area 51 suspicious? Like how do we know it's not a training ground for a government-funded alien army that's gonna take over the US?

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Level 74

Jan 5, 2020

If it is government funded, hasn't it already taken over the US?

Level 16

Mar 4, 2020

I just took a very short glance at a map and found that most of that federally owned land is simply land preserves like parks.

Level 73

Jun 28, 2020

The federal land is Nevada is definitely not "parks." My father worked for the BLM out there for years and always had amusing stories about how well the feds "manage" the land.

Level 67

May 12, 2021

My mind is so broken from 2020 I thought BLM stood for BLM for a sec.

Level 54

Dec 5, 2021

It crosses my mind as well.

Level 71

Jun 21, 2020

As Nevada has been used for hundreds of Nuclear Bomb tests, both air and underground, I should imagine a great area of Nevada is contaminated and out of bounds.

Level 73

Jun 28, 2020

That testing was only done in a very specific area and the state is huge.

Level 71

Aug 20, 2020

he total secured area section of the test site is 130 sq..kms.

Level 85

Dec 28, 2020

If the government is funding this "alien army," creating said army to do its bidding, it can't be to take over the government - why/how would the government take over itself? Our concern should be that we outdated human drones will be replaced by more efficient and reliable alien army drones! ;-)

Level 46

Apr 23, 2021

well why would they build a big important base thats not secluded and surrounded by federal property

Level 89

Jul 3, 2020

Four additional elements were discovered at the same mine in Ytterby. They were also named for things Swedish.

Level 40

Jul 2, 2021

Is one of them called "Red Fish"?

Level 62

Aug 7, 2021

We finally won another gold today! Fact #321 needs some correction.

Level 71

Sep 22, 2021

Indeed, Indian Neeraj Chopra won the javelin gold for men with a throw of 87.58m.

Level 41

Aug 18, 2021

Re 322: The name "Cartagena" seems to be an amalgam of the city's Latin name "Carthago nova" (as it was called in Ancient Roman times). This in fact means "New New Town", since Carthago is a latinised form of the Punic Qart Hadash, meaning New Town.

Level 68

Oct 10, 2021

I'm not 100% sure, but I think #325 is repeated.

Level 74

Dec 8, 2021

Think there's a typo with an extra "s" in #324

Level 71

Mar 3, 2022

'Froststar101' ..... wins the 'Gold Nitpickers Award' for Dec. 2021 ....... Congratulations.

Level 41

Aug 21, 2022

whys the sarcassamss

Is grammars taugt n skool no moores.

Level 71

Dec 18, 2023

#322 is a stretch. By the time Spain founded Cartagena in Colombia, do you really think they still considered themselves Carthaginians? If you stretch this logic out far enough, anywhere outside of Ethiopia is a "colony."