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There is a highway interchange in the Houston area which takes up an area equivalent to the entire city center of Sienna, Italy (home to about 30,000 people).
472
On April 18, 1930, the BBC announced, "There is no news today," and just played piano music instead.
473
St. John's, Newfoundland, is closer to Croatia than it is to Vancouver.
474
Between 1913–1915, several people mailed babies using the U.S. Postal Service.
475
In 1889, parts of Oklahoma, previously reserved for Native Americans, were opened up for white settlement. On a day in April, over 50,000 people lined up outside. The rules were simple: first come, first served. At noon, the signal was given and they rushed into the land to claim what they could with. Unfortunately for them, other people had got there "sooner" and claimed much of the good land. This is why today Oklahoma is known as the "Sooner State".
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Quizmaster
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Sep 15, 2020
Credit to @ChessPlayer for fact #472 and @BotswanaEmperor for fact #473.
CambodianQuizzer
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Sep 1, 2020
To be exact, which interchange?
angrobper14
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Sep 5, 2020
Neither the British report that highlighted the fact, nor the tweet that brought it to public light, nor the Texan explanatory article pinpoint exactly which one (among the "countless stack interchanges" in Houston)...

However, people have searched which one, and the "winner" is apparently this one in Northeast Houston (I-10 & I-610)

Quizmaster
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Sep 5, 2020
Nice detective work! I don't know why journalists frequently leave out information like that.
Quizmaster
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Sep 5, 2020
Meanwhile, here in Seattle, our highway interchanges themselves have a decent-sized human population...
QayseriRum
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Oct 15, 2023
as a Seattle native, I can relate
CambodianQuizzer
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Oct 5, 2020
Hey, I've been there before.
gewehr6628
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May 5, 2021
good one qm. down here in california i can relate
ShievaAndGolly
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Apr 22, 2022
Same with Oregon.
SpencerGT
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May 6, 2022
That's even bigger than this pretty well-known one near LA.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Inglewood,+CA/@33.9285979,-118.2806375,1372m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x80c2b656274bdd8d:0x727b30fdcae3170!8m2!3d33.9616801!4d-118.3531311

Regtheledge1000
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Sep 1, 2020
Marmite was actually invented by the Victorians as horse shoe polish
Regtheledge1000
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Sep 1, 2020
There is more sugar in a lemon than in a strawberry (partly due to size difference)
EvanAviator
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Sep 25, 2020
that is pretty expected
Regtheledge1000
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Sep 1, 2020
Cheese is the most shoplifted food in the world
Quizmaster
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Sep 14, 2020
* Citation needed.
Deathslayer
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Jul 9, 2022
https://www.mashed.com/219606/the-real-reason-cheese-is-the-most-stolen-food-in-the-world/#:~:text=An%20astonishing%204%20percent%20of,stolen%20food%20(via%20Time).
Regtheledge1000
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Sep 1, 2020
The average human body contains enough fat to make 7 bars of soap
SpencerGT
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May 6, 2022
Why do you know this?
Inferno46
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Jun 29, 2022
Why would they not know this?
Regtheledge1000
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Sep 1, 2020
Scientists once genetically modified goats to spin spider silk from their udders. It was a sucsess
ItzIngenious
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May 29, 2021
Poor goats
bkemp2001
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Mar 12, 2022
Now I'm going to have nightmares about spidergoats.
Regtheledge1000
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Sep 1, 2020
In 1960, a cow got hit by a chunk of falling U.S. satellite in Cuba. And then, the Cubans held a parade in its memorial.
Regtheledge1000
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Sep 1, 2020
Jeff Bezos’ Ex-wife, Mackenzie Bezos, is the richest woman in america
Astana
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Sep 5, 2023
I think they are now divorced, though.
Regtheledge1000
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The earths magnetic fields are rapidly decreasing : about 10% in the last century
Regtheledge1000
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Sep 1, 2020
The Falkland Islands have 17 times more sheep than humans
TheLocalMilkMan
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Sep 2, 2020
Jeez @Regtheledge you got alist or something saved?
Regtheledge1000
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Sep 2, 2020
No it’s just random that I know. I transferred all of the ones on the previous page to this one but I added more
TheLocalMilkMan
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Sep 2, 2020
Corporal Wojtek was a Polish soldier that hauled ammunition.

Wojtek is a bear

JustBeYourSelf
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Sep 6, 2020
Didn't know that
Regtheledge1000
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Sep 13, 2020
Sadly it has already been done
NV1
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Sep 4, 2020
The first footprints on the moon will stay there for a million years.
AlexThirkell
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Nov 5, 2020
...unless there's a meteor strike.
NV1
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Sep 4, 2020
The tradition of a handshake was first used to show that you were unarmed.
Quizmaster
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Sep 14, 2020
I want to believe, but there doesn't seem to be any evidence mentioned here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handshake

A lot of "cool facts" are not in fact facts, such as those printed on Snapple lids, for example.

Regtheledge1000
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Sep 6, 2020
Nepal is the only democratically elected communist coumtry
Regtheledge1000
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Sep 6, 2020
The battle of Hastings didn’t actually take place here, it took place in a small town called “Battle” (I wonder why it’s called that) 6miles away, but when it happened, battle was part of Hastings
Xenobiologista
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Dec 2, 2020
Apparently, one of my ancestors was part of the battle as a french nobleman. That's the farthest back my family has been able to go.
Regtheledge1000
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Sep 6, 2020
Despite still recovering from a serous war, Libya has one of the highest HDI’s in the whole in africa, even higher than South Africa
Quizmaster
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Sep 14, 2020
This speaks more to flaws in the HDI methodology than anything else. You'll find similarly outdated stats about Venezuela even though they have the worst poverty in the Western Hemisphere, and more than 20% of the population has fled.
angrobper14
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Sep 7, 2020
Talking about Houston... Back in 2010, there was a proposal to cover Houston with a dome, a really big dome ('big' even by "Texas' 'bigness' standards"). The idea was to protect the city from the weather: heat, hurricanes, all those things.

Sounds nice? Not at all: The dome would cost so much (I believe the figure was round the 2 billion dollars), yet it would only protect Downtown Houston, leaving the rest of the city as vulnerable as ever.

And considering that everyone and their granny would go to Downtown Houston to protect themselves during a hurricane, that would be a mess of overcrowding and heavy crammed highways.

FlyingG
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Sep 23, 2020
That is why you want to live in The Metroplex!
TheLocalMilkMan
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Sep 11, 2020
Every British tank is equipped with supplies to make tea inside of them
TheLocalMilkMan
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Sep 11, 2020
Russian Cosmonauts have a tradition of peeing on the tire of the bus that brought them there starting with Yuri Gargarin
TheLocalMilkMan
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Sep 11, 2020
Operation Leg
angrobper14
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Sep 11, 2020
That dude (Douglas Bader), is freaking unreal!!! A true legend!!!
NV1
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Sep 11, 2020
Pripyat, site of the Chernobyl disaster, which is also a ghost town with a population with 0, is still a federal Ukrainian city.
Malbaby
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Apr 25, 2021
How can you have a population of '0'
TheForsakenFurby
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Jun 4, 2021
Well when a nuclear reactor is about to blow up I'd imagine everyone fled the city
driehoek25
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Dec 29, 2021
It already had blown up a few days before the city got evacuated.
RossH
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Jul 1, 2022
Plymouth in Montserrat has a population of zero, having been destroyed by a volcanic eruption in 1997. Despite this, Plymouth is still officially Montserrat's capital city.
wiifly
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Sep 12, 2020
Probably not good enough for an interesting fact but I thought it was funny that Alberta has some of the best names for cities ever: Rainbow Lake, High Level, Little Buffalo, Radium Hot Springs, Sexsmith, Peace River, Beaverlodge. I mean for some reason the 5th biggest city in Alberta by population is called Medicine Hat!!
AlexThirkell
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Nov 5, 2020
Medicine Hat?!
peardestroyer
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Nov 24, 2020
Yeah, many other Canadian cities do as well, like Prince Albert, Alberta
Jiaozira
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Dec 2, 2020

Medicine Hat is surprisingly a really lovely city. I believe British Columbia takes the prize for strangest/most interesting names. There are a series of communities along the former HBC Brigade Trail (Gold Rush Era) which are named by their distance along the trail. The largest of these is 100 Mile House, but there also exists 93 Mile House, 150 Mile House, etc.

Another odd Canadian name can be found in Quebec, Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha! which always contains the two exclamation marks in its name. The town is thought to derive its name from 'haha', an archaic French word for an inpasse, although there are similarly named locales in the Saguenay region which are thought to carry over the 'Ha! Ha!' word from the indigenous Montagnais language.

NV1
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Jun 7, 2021
Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan
IsleAuHaulte
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Sep 5, 2021
Norm MacDonald's favorite place he played as a starving young Canadian comic was Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump, Alberta.

It turns out it's real, maybe the one single thing he's not making up.

wiifly
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Sep 12, 2020
There's a river in Canada called the Chinchaga river that has thousands of horseshoe lakes along side it because of how windy it is, and in the satellite feature of Google Maps you can see thousands more that are either dried up or just don't show up on the map.
Geographystar
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Sep 14, 2020
I was looking at that on google maps, and I noticed that at 58.716 -118.387 you can see a place where two satellite pictures were merged together, which is pretty interesting.
Geographystar
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Sep 14, 2020
And at 58.87 -118.25, you can see an oxbow lake about to be formed.
MayaB
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Nov 9, 2020
Ok, I just checked it on google maps and it looks really cool. Thanks for sharing, @wiifly! :)
NathanielBergner
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Mar 26, 2024
Thats so cool

Thanks for showing me that

Regtheledge1000
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Sep 13, 2020
Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Phillip are third cousins
driehoek25
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Dec 29, 2021
In WW1 most country leaders were either brothers or first cousins.
IsleAuHaulte
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Mar 14, 2022
And Prince Charles almost married his double cousin, Amanda Ellingworth. She was the granddaughter of Lord Mountbatten who was the uncle of Charles's father and 3rd cousin of his mother.

So she was his his 2nd cousin on his father's side and 3rd cousin twice removed on his mother's side, with both his parents already descended from queen Victoria as was his love interest.

When Mountbatten was assassinated by Irish terrorists she broke away from Charles not wanting to be drawn closer into the central family and the dangers at the time.

The roots of the royal family tree are like bonsai stumps.

ChessPlayer
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Sep 13, 2020
It snowed in the Sahara desert for 30 minutes on 18th February 1979.
ChessPlayer
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Sep 13, 2020
On April 18, 1930, the BBC announced, "There is no news today," and just plated piano music instead.
Regtheledge1000
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Sep 13, 2020
😂
MrNugget
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Sep 14, 2020
Clicking on the interesting facts link at the bottom of the site brings you to a different page that is NOT interesting fact page 1
Regtheledge1000
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Sep 14, 2020
Liar
MrNugget
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Sep 14, 2020
I want to clarify that if you click the interesting fact link at the bottom of the page, it brings you to a front-page that looks like interesting facts page No.1, you can see this by checking the comments, then click page one and you'll see that they are a different page
Geographystar
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Sep 14, 2020
If he is still alive on January 20, 2021, Walter Mondale will be the first person to have been a former U.S. Vice President for 40 years.
HinesBrothers
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Sep 15, 2020
As well as Jimmy Carter being the first former president for 40 years
Geographystar
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Sep 15, 2020
Come to think of it, yeah, he will be. In case anybody was curious, the next closest is Herbert Hoover, who was a former president for 31 and a bit years, and the next closest for the vp is Richard Nixon (vp for Eisenhower) for 33 years.
IsleAuHaulte
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Mar 14, 2022
He died April 19, 2021.
NV1
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Sep 14, 2020
The northernmost tip of mainland Scotland is at the same latitude as southern Alaska.
AlexThirkell
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Nov 5, 2020
#471 the Italian city is Siena, with one 'n'.
AlexThirkell
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Nov 5, 2020
Also just noticed reading 475:

"they rushed into the land to claim what they could with."

"with" what?

LudwigVonKoopa
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May 7, 2021
It would be nice to have a way to see all the pages you viewed so you don't have to click through 50 pages to get to a new area.
FNSpiderMan
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Feb 21, 2022
There's a lot of information on #475 that speaks to US history. Definitely look into it, as well as the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot and Black Wall Street.
Astana
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Jul 3, 2023
#472 On that day 118 people died in a fire in Romania and the day before neoprene was invented.
Astana
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Sep 5, 2023
According to Wikipedia's "year 1930" article. I do not how how reliable that is.
brandybuck96
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Dec 7, 2023
At that time, things happening on the day itself would presumably have been reported the following day? Also, forgive my ignorance but what is neoprene and why would it be newsworthy?
Fianchetto
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Mar 6, 2024
For 431 Siena is spelled wrong and there are 50k+ people
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