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The Parliament of the United Kingdom spent 700 hours debating whether to ban fox hunting, but only 7 hours debating whether to invade Iraq.
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Many scientists believed that the moon was formed when a Mars-sized planet (named Theia) slammed into the Earth 4.51 billion years ago. The impact blasted material into a disk orbiting the Earth which eventually coalesced into the moon.
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Earth has nearly 10 times the mass of Mars.
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Death Valley may be the hottest place on Earth, but there are other places that feel even hotter. Due to a combination of heat and humidity, the places with the highest ever "Heat Index" are found on the coast of the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf.
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In Medieval times, France had its own caste of untouchables who were known as Cagots. Cagots looked, spoke, and acted just like everyone else but were for some reason considered unclean. No one knows how this superstition started, but it didn't fully die off until the 20th century.
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Geographystar
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Level 67
Feb 4, 2020
One interesting fact is that, with the obvious exception of Hawaii, is that every state has at least one straight line border, check for yourself!
Quizzer6794
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Level 65
Feb 6, 2020
South Carolina?
Geographystar
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Level 67
Feb 8, 2020
Even South Carolina, there is a straight line segment on the North Carolina border.
Stewart
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Level 68
Feb 8, 2020
Surely this is a trivial statement though? All borders are generally defined as a collection of straight lines, so that a region becomes a collection of polygons. I don't think there's any border in the world which is defined as a curve, rather than a series of lines.
YellowJacket
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Level 78
Dec 20, 2020
The 12 Mile Circle border between Delaware and Pennsylvania is a 12 mile arc.
SpencerGT
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Level 67
Oct 25, 2021
Some borders are defined by rivers or mountains, so not everything is defined by lines.
Geographystar
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Level 67
Feb 8, 2020
Allow me to explain, there are three types of borders, borders that follow a river or other body of water, and therefore are not straight, straight line borders, like a lot of the borders in the American west, and circle borders, like Delaware, every U.S. state has at least one example of the second type of border.
Stewart
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Level 68
Feb 8, 2020
It seems you're correct, this isn't such a trivial statement! I had no idea curved borders existed (e.g. penn-dela), and completely forgot about natural borders. Thanks for the info!
Geographystar
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Level 67
Feb 8, 2020
No problem!
Geographystar
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Level 67
May 26, 2022
Looking back at this, I have slight correction for past me, there are other natural borders, like mountain ranges and other similar stuff.
k455381
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Level 57
Mar 19, 2024
colorado?
roleybob
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Level 75
Feb 14, 2020
What about this one - The Moon is moving away from the Earth at about the same speed as your fingernails grow
Geographystar
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Level 67
Feb 17, 2020
Did you know that the orbit of Saturn is closer to the sun than the orbit of Uranus. I think that this would make a good interesting fact.
Malbaby
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Level 71
Aug 19, 2020
As Saturn is about half the distance from the Sun (1500 million km) as compared to Uranus (3000 million km) it is not really surprising that the orbit of Saturn is nearer to the Sun than Uranus.
LudwigVonKoopa
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Level 58
Mar 19, 2021
Here's an interesting fact Uranus should be renamed "King George" in my opinion and was called Georgium for a while briefly after its discovery!
smoceany
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Level 52
Jun 15, 2021
nah dont change it, i like uranus, its great
TheLocalMilkMan
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Level 44
Feb 26, 2020
Here is one,

Every 248(or 284 I forgot) years,

Neptune is farther away from the sun than Pluto

Sealantmajor
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Level 54
Mar 21, 2020
I read the Cagot fact in Wikipedia. I also read that they were only allowed to be carpenters most of the time.
ooftownroad
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Level 61
Apr 3, 2020
oops! the alaska fact already exists!
UhmmmACYSHUALY
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Level 37
Mar 12, 2021
#396 tho
gewehr6628
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Level 46
May 20, 2021
is #396 kind of an example of bikeshedding
Malbaby
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Level 71
Sep 16, 2021
Fox Hunting is not a trivial matter, as it divides the people of the UK along elitist lines. The 'elite' have to desperately hang-on to every little particle of difference between the have and the have-nots or more precisely the 'In crowd' and the 'Out crowd' society wise......... As the summing up of the Fox-Hunting Debate wisely put it ........ "A serious difficulty of the ruling elite in linking legal and political responsibility to legitimate authority in the exercise of democratic power".
Ludovico
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Level 71
May 26, 2021
Cagots... Hmm in Spanish we have a word that is very similar, 'cagar', the vulgar way of saying 'to poop'. I wonder if there is some correlation here.
TheUnableDerk
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Level 57
Mar 7, 2022
Armenia isn't a -stan country, or at least in English.

Since Armenia in Armenian is Hayastan (meaning land of the Armenians), it technically is in Armenia.

Gorpik
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Level 34
Feb 12, 2024
The Cagots also lived in northern Spain, where they were known as Agotes. They suffered the same discrimination for the same unknown reasons until recent years.
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