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Despite representing only 0.1% of the world's population, Ashkenazi Jews have won more than 20% of Nobel Prizes.
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A googol is a number that is written as a 1 followed by 100 zeroes. It was named by the nine year old nephew of mathematician Edward Kasner. It is also known as ten duotrigintillion.
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Think that a googol is a large number? A googolplex will blow your mind. It is a 1 followed by a googol zeroes, which can be written as 1010100. Just how big is a googolplex? It turns out that if you turned the entire mass of the observable universe into paper, you would not have even close to enough paper to write out the full number.
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42 buildings in New York City have their own zip codes.
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Gobi means desert so Gobi Desert means "desert desert".
77 Comments
Quizmaster
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Level ∞
Oct 26, 2020
Thanks to @Jetpunker180 for #514 and #515.
SirPhilippines
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Level 73
Oct 26, 2020
Wow
SirPhilippines
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Level 73
Oct 26, 2020
The longest palindrome is tattarrattat, which means a knock on a door.
SirPhilippines
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Level 73
Oct 26, 2020
That is in English that is, but the longest word in any language is "saippuakivikauppias" which means soapstone vendor in Finnish.
NotmiandKiKi
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Level 81
Oct 28, 2020
Actually, there is even longer Finnish palindrome, "saippuakalasalakauppias". It means blackmarket soapfish vendor.
SirPhilippines
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Level 73
Oct 29, 2020
nice
SirPhilippines
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Level 73
Oct 29, 2020
I found a sentence that is really really, long.

https://norvig.com/palindrome-a.html

goodquizzes
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Level 18
May 30, 2023
For reasons know only to the human brain, that's funny right there.
PHG1960
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Level 69
Oct 9, 2023
Must have been written by Faulkner.
stylus
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Level 79
Jun 29, 2021
there’s a whole novel called ‘Satire - Veritas’ that’s about 80,000 characters and it’s a palindrome
Tanttu41
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Level 17
Jul 6, 2021
Actually the longest palindrome (Finnish of course) is olutsuolatukkutaloustulo, meaning something like "the money that has been obtained from wholesale economy which is selling salt for beer".
PHG1960
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Level 69
Oct 9, 2023
Able was I ere I saw Elba is longer. A palindrome doesn't have to be a single word and I suspect there are many other longer palindromes.
SirPhilippines
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Level 73
Oct 26, 2020
In Tagalog, you can say a whole conversation using Ba.
SirPhilippines
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Level 73
Oct 26, 2020
Picasso's Old Guitarist has another painting under it.
SirPhilippines
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Level 73
Oct 26, 2020
There was a April Fools prank where people of Skita, Alaska was warned of a volcano erupting. Then the prankster tires in to show "smoke". The Cost Guard game and found out near the "smoke" there were April Fools, spray painted on the snow.
SirPhilippines
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Level 73
Oct 27, 2020
"then the prankster tires in" There should be threw between prankster and tires
Dollyfroggy
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Level 63
Aug 14, 2023
And "game" should be "came"
Minecraftyoshi2
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Level 57
Oct 29, 2024
And Cost should be Coast
SirPhilippines
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Level 73
Oct 27, 2020
"The Lorax" has been banned in some places because it goes against the logging industry.
goodquizzes
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Level 18
May 30, 2023
Wow loggers are that powerful?
SirPhilippines
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Level 73
Oct 27, 2020
Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt got shot and still did a 84 minute speech.
SirPhilippines
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Level 73
Oct 27, 2020
The word alphabet means "alpha beta" the first 2 letters of the alphabet.
SirPhilippines
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Level 73
Oct 29, 2020
greek
ItzIngenious
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Level 66
Aug 16, 2021
Duh
goodquizzes
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Level 18
May 30, 2023
I hope everyone's mind went to the greek alphabet, but still, the distinction is important.
SirPhilippines
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Level 73
Oct 27, 2020
There is a law in Connecticut where a pickle needs to bounce to be called a pickle.
ItzIngenious
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Level 66
Aug 16, 2021
Lol
goodquizzes
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Level 18
May 30, 2023
What the...? How do they get a pickle to bounce? It's a solid fruit(fruit frankenstein's monster).
SirPhilippines
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Level 73
Oct 27, 2020
Toto's "Africa" will play in a loop forever in Namibia's desert. Edit: I meant Namib desert, not Namiba's desert.
SirPhilippines
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Level 73
Oct 27, 2020
Google used to be called "BackRub"
SirPhilippines
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Level 73
Oct 27, 2020
Maybe google is name after googol pages??? Just a hypothesis
McKenzieFam
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Level 68
Nov 10, 2020
you're actually right, you know
SirPhilippines
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Level 73
Oct 27, 2020
Greenland isn't as big as you think, it's just a little bigger than Saudi Arabia. Yes, but still big.
Baxtergrad
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Level 51
Nov 16, 2020
Darn Mercator!
sacheth9
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Level 65
Feb 24, 2021
Yes, it's even smaller than the DR Congo! (by about 100,000 sq. mi)
SpencerGT
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Level 68
Oct 18, 2021
Presumptuous of you to think I know how big Greenland is.

(Jk, I did think it was bigger than Saudi Arabia I'm sorry...)

goodquizzes
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Level 18
May 30, 2023
Every jetpunk kilometer distance estimator hates the mercator map.
SirPhilippines
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Level 73
Oct 27, 2020
The island of Camiguin has more volcanoes than towns, 7 to 5.
SirPhilippines
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Level 73
Oct 28, 2020
Made from a gas accident, people discovered the "Gate To Hell" in Turkmenistan.
ooftownroad
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Level 70
Oct 28, 2020
acually they lit it on fire to get rid of it, and it never stopped burning.
SirPhilippines
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Level 73
Oct 28, 2020
oh yeah
SirPhilippines
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Level 73
Oct 28, 2020
Unicode 3164 is a blank space.
JetPunker180
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Level 54
Oct 27, 2020
Peru has floating island on lake
NV1
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Level 55
Oct 27, 2020
The northernmost part of the Sahara Desert is at the same latitude as parts of Virginia, and the southernmost is at the same latitude as central Costa Rica.
SirPhilippines
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Level 73
Oct 27, 2020
What if 10 had the power of a googolplex?
angrobper14
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Level 86
Oct 30, 2020
Do you want to break the Universe?
SirPhilippines
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Level 73
Nov 2, 2020
yes
ilikegeography18
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Level 29
May 9, 2022
Known as a, "googolplexian." 10^googolplexian is a googolplexianth.
NV1
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Level 55
Oct 27, 2020
Honolulu is closer to Alaska than it is to Japan (By almost 1,000 miles).
NV1
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Level 55
Oct 28, 2020
Source Maps
JetPunker180
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Level 54
Oct 28, 2020
Gobi means desert so Gobi desert means DESERT DESERT
WolfCam
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Level 67
Oct 28, 2020
Similarly, Lake Tahoe means Lake Lake and Sahara Desert means desert desert
wiifly
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Level 65
Nov 23, 2020
And East Timor means East East, but that's already on here.
wiifly
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Level 65
Feb 28, 2023
Plus Chai Tea is really dumb because Chai already means Tea
brandybuck96
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Level 82
Mar 2, 2023
Not that dumb. In English, it has a more specific reference to a certain type of tea. Many languages form their vocabulary in a similar way to refer to previously foreign concepts and things.
plattitude
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Level 94
Apr 6, 2023
There's also the Eurasion brown bear, which has the scientific name of "Ursus arctos arctos," literally "bear bear bear."

Or Torpenhow Hill in England, which by some disputed etymology would mean "Hill hill hill hill," but sadly I think that one's been refuted.

NV1
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Level 55
Oct 29, 2020
Honolulu is closer to Utqiagvik, Alaska than it is to Japan. Source: Google Maps.
JetPunker180
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Level 54
Oct 30, 2020
It’s forbidden for airplanes to fly over the Taj Mahal
JetPunker180
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Level 54
Oct 30, 2020
Until 2002 there was an agreement between Monaco and France that if the principality doesn’t have a male heir, Monaco would lose its independence.
McKenzieFam
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Level 68
Nov 10, 2020
why are so many people posting blank comments?
Baxtergrad
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Level 51
Nov 16, 2020
Bcauz
goodquizzes
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Level 18
May 30, 2023
That spelling hurts me deeply.
turnbacktwo
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Level 46
Nov 17, 2020
because what grandoldman
AiJiyao
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Level 66
Nov 18, 2020
And if your mind survived the googolplex, try Graham's number, then maybe TREE(3).
BelgianFries
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Level 47
Nov 18, 2020
...or maybe Rayo's number :D
wiifly
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Level 65
Nov 23, 2020
Anyone else flashing back to that one Game Theory episode about the amount of possible Mario Maker levels and one of the largest numbers conceived yet, "MarioPlex"?
SirPhilippines
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Level 73
Jan 13, 2021
And some of those levels are made by me :)
ilikegeography18
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Level 29
May 9, 2022
Compared to larger numbers, EG googolplex, Graham's number, TREE(3), 10^50000 is nothing.
stevediverse
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Level 86
Aug 26, 2021
Gobi is Hindi for Cauliflower. So Gobi Desert means Cauliflower Desert.
Freestatebear
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Level 88
Aug 31, 2021
IF it were in India! (or to Hindi-speaking vacationers).
TomatosRaafatos
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Level 76
Dec 7, 2021
515 is good but it's even the same for the Sahara Desert. Sahara means desert in Arabic.
ShievaAndGolly
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Level 60
Mar 7, 2022
Timor Leste means East East.
918Winchan
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Level 73
Aug 8, 2022
Registan is the name of a desert in Afghanistan and it also is the word for desert in Hindi and Farsi.
randomdude22
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Level 26
Nov 26, 2022
If you think googolplex is big then you should search grahams number or TREE(3)
ooftownroad
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Level 70
Feb 13, 2023
ㅤ
goodquizzes
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Level 18
May 30, 2023
Mississippi has 3 sets of double letters, making it much easier to spell than you would think. Also it sounds like Mrs. Hippie.
Gorpik
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Level 50
Mar 25, 2024
The number of atoms in the universe is estimated at 10^50. This means that, if each atom in the universe were actually a universe itself, the total number of atoms in all those universes would be a googol. It is an absurdly high number.
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