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The northernmost point of Brazil is closer to Canada than it is to the southernmost point of Brazil.

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Covid-19 may not be the first coronavirus pandemic in history. Some researchers believe that the 1889–1890 pandemic was caused by a coronavirus.

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Only fourteen people have survived a rabies infection after showing symptoms.

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The avocado has such a large pit because it evolved to be eaten whole by large, now extinct, creatures such as giant ground sloths. It is unclear how avocados survived when the North American megafauna was driven to extinction by humans.

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Johnny Appleseed was a real person.

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Oct 5, 2020

Credit to level160 for fact 491.

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Oct 5, 2020

An NFL team secretly moved from Baltimore to Indianapolis at the middle of the night.

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Oct 14, 2020

Just heard about that on Aerial America.

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Nov 29, 2023

Wikipedia link

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Oct 5, 2020

The first oranges were not orange, they were green!

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Oct 5, 2020

#491 from Real Life Lore

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Oct 6, 2020

The Spanish National Anthem has no words.

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Oct 14, 2020

German national football players (especially those of Turkish/African descent) were heavily criticized for not singing the anthem. The lack of singing was cited as the main reason for not winning important matches (=lack of passion, pride). Few cared that the Spanish team, which beat ours, doesn't even have lyrics. And that the glorious 1970s World Cup winning team was also remained silent during the anthem.

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Oct 7, 2020

9 more facts to page 100

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Oct 7, 2020

Pheasant Island is an island split between the Spanish-French border, and instead of splitting the island in half, the island switches ownership every 6 months

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Nov 30, 2023

Wikipedia link

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Oct 9, 2020

Palmanova is an Italian town shaped like a star.

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Oct 9, 2020

On Jetpunk, Insults, vulgar language, and spam are strictly forbidden (i think you know the source ;) )

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Oct 10, 2020

Google map is showing statue of slave trade Edward Coulston in river after protestors in Bristol tore threw down it in river

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Jan 26, 2022

It is no longer underneath the water in order to prevent it from damaging boats

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Oct 10, 2020

Franklin Pierce was the only U.S. president who lost in his party's primary.

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Oct 12, 2020

*incumbent

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Aug 9, 2021

Most Vice Presidents who have ascended upon the death of their President have failed to get their party's nomination when election time rolls around. Lyndon Johnson was one who didn't bother run the last time because he figured he wouldn't get the party's nomination.

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Oct 11, 2020

US congress rules that a pizza can be classified as a vegetable do to the amount of tomato sauce

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Oct 18, 2021

* due

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Oct 14, 2020

In the Philippines, you can say a whole sentence using ba. 'Ba?= Really?, Baba= Chin (slow) and down (fast), Bababa= Going Down, Bababa Ba?= Is it going down?, Ba? Babababa? Baba!= Really? Is it going down? Get down! Source is this Geography Now video, on 11:07. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVFvRNRTEd4

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Oct 14, 2020

Calling all Geograpeeps in JetPunk!!

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Jan 26, 2022

BABABABABABABABABABABABA

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Oct 14, 2020

The easternmost part of Indonesia is closer to Africa or Dubai than it is to the westernmost part.

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Oct 14, 2020

Now that's interesting.

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Oct 14, 2020

Sounds kinda fishy. Are you sure the fact sentence is correctly phrased?

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Oct 15, 2020

yeah switch easternmost with westernmost

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Nov 15, 2020

Wait, @NeilVedwan is actually correct.

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Oct 14, 2020

The northernmost part of Canada is closer to Moscow than it is to Canada's southernmost point.

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Oct 14, 2020

Yes, we know. The curvature of the earth makes everything wonky.

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Oct 14, 2020

And source is google maps

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Aug 9, 2021

And the majority of Canadians live closer to Brazil than the northernmost frozen reaches of Canada.

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Oct 18, 2021

I think I read that the northernmost part of Brazil is closer to Canada than it is to the southernmost part of Brazil.

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Oct 24, 2021

I am an absolute idiot I read that here LOL.

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Oct 14, 2020

Don't know if these have been published, but here we go:

The Manila Galleon was a trading route used by the Spanish Empire from 1565 to 1815, between the ports of Acapulco (now Mexico) and Manila (now Philippines). Despite crossing a good chunk of the Pacific Ocean, it was done "within" only one colony: the Viceroyalty of New Spain.

In the 1690s, Scotland tried to bring forth the New Caledonia colony in the Darien Gap, and failed. As 20% of Scotland's circulating money was funneled to the scheme, the failure weakened so much the country's economy, it pushes Scotland to accept the Act of Union of 1707, which ended uniting Scotland with England into Great Britain

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Dec 10, 2020

It partly failed because the spanish claimed the area, so the only trade they managed to accomplish was getting alcoholic drinks from England, which didn't help.

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Oct 15, 2020

The surface area of all the air sacs put together is same size as a tennis court

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Oct 15, 2020

There are more than 2000 km of blood vessels in our lungs

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Oct 15, 2020

The human heart pump approximately 7500 litres of blood every day

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Oct 15, 2020

In Connecticut, there is a law that a pickle can only can be called a pickle if it bounces.

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Oct 15, 2020

Source: https://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local/farmers-say-pass-this-pickle-of-a-bill/2061169/#:~:text=In%20Connecticut%2C%20a%20pickle%20has,legally%20be%20called%20a%20pickle.&text=Farmers%20can%20sell%20all%20the,value%20of%204.6%20or%20less.

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Oct 15, 2020

Kamchatka is closer to Hawaii than it is to Perm

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Oct 15, 2020

The westernmost part of Alaska is closer to Harbin or Sapporo than it is to the easternmost part.

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Oct 16, 2020

Similar to 491 - If you flipped Norway over at its southern point, it would reach down to Africa

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Nov 20, 2020

I meant Scandinavia, not Norway