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Until 2002, it was possible that if the Prince of Monaco died without a male heir, Monaco would become part of France.
517
The IKEA effect is a cognitive bias in which consumers place a disproportionately high value on products they partially created.
518
The longest ordinary word in the German language is Rechtsschutzversicherungsgesellschaften, which means "insurance companies providing legal protection". It is 38 letters long.
519
During the Covid-19 pandemic, interest rates fell so low that even Greece issued bonds paying negative interest. That's right, if you had lent the Greek government money, you would have had to pay them for the privilege.
520
In Turkmenistan, there's a crater filled with natural gas that has been on fire since 1971. It is known as "The Gates of Hell".
77 Comments
Quizmaster
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Level ∞
Oct 31, 2020
Thanks to @Jetpunker180 for #516 and @SirPhillipines for #520.
FlyingG
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Level 68
Nov 2, 2020
Fact #518: Jetpunk is fun
KiloNova
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Level 61
Aug 10, 2023
I thought is was called the Door to Hell.
GoldenEagleQuiz
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Level 41
Jan 25, 2026
lol
TheLocalMilkMan
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Level 43
Nov 2, 2020
According to QMs new website, TheNameGeek, the first name Man is a unisex name while the first name Mann is a male name
Quizmaster
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Level ∞
Nov 3, 2020
It might be that "Man" is a generic name that gets filled in when information is absent, much like "Baby" and "Unknown".
Eggster2
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Level 14
Mar 25, 2023
Yeah I know a lot of people named Mann.
HelveticaBold
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Level 71
Nov 3, 2020
The symbols @#$%&* when used to denote obscenities in writing are called 'grawlixes'.
FlyingG
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Level 68
Nov 3, 2020
Fact #519: I really like TheNameGeek! (mainly because of that presidential last names to normal first names quiz)
JetPunker180
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Level 54
Nov 4, 2020
It is forbidden for planes to fly over Taj Mahal.
JetPunker180
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Level 54
Nov 4, 2020
The Longest Straight Line You Can Sail on Earth is from

Pakistan to Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia – 20000 miles.

Dollyfroggy
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Level 63
Nov 14, 2022
Wait, what? How can you sail from Pakistan to Kamchatka in a straight line?
Vivelageo
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Level 43
Oct 2, 2025
I guess though the Magellan Pass
JetPunker180
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Level 54
Oct 29, 2025
You can, the earth is round.
JetPunker180
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Level 54
Nov 4, 2020
if you turn Americas map when North is down it seems like duck.
Baxtergrad
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Level 51
Nov 4, 2020
Not really a fact.
roleybob
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Level 73
Nov 10, 2020
Ha - not even a coherent sentence!
JetPunker180
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Level 54
Nov 5, 2020
Tendulkar played his first match for Pakistan.
JetPunker180
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Level 54
Nov 5, 2020
In Arabian countries, Persian Gulg is known as Arabian Gulf.
EytanMelech
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Level 66
May 11, 2021
gulg
Ainmclarach
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Level 71
May 7, 2023
Gulg
THTB
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Level 46
Nov 7, 2023
gulg
Insaniot
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Level 63
Feb 15, 2024
me when i drink the persian gulf
Geographystar
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Level 68
Nov 5, 2020
New Orleans is closer to Mexico than St. Louis.
NV1
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Level 55
Nov 7, 2020
Kamala Harris is the first VP elect to be Indian-American, a woman, a person of color, and with Jamaican ancestry.
BelgianFries
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Level 47
Nov 9, 2020
I thought she was from the Philippines.
SirPhilippines
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Level 73
Nov 10, 2020
I'd like that if she was.
HinesBrothers
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Level 78
Nov 25, 2020
Kamala Harris is not Vice President and quite possibly won't be
Baxtergrad
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Level 51
Dec 15, 2020
Maybe...but we can only hope.
SirPhilippines
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Level 73
Mar 18, 2021
Fun fact: She is!
NV1
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Level 55
Apr 6, 2021
Yes she is...
Rougarou
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Level 64
Nov 16, 2024
This aged like milk.
gewehr6628
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Level 47
May 10, 2021
and pretty soon she might be the first president with all those things
MrFatFat
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Level 45
Aug 22, 2024
She might be...
bananawana
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Level 32
Feb 18, 2026
Please no.
EytanMelech
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Level 66
May 11, 2021
Kamala Harris isn't the first non-white VP. Charles Curtis was half native American.
NV1
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Level 55
Nov 7, 2020
Joe Biden is the first president elect from Delaware, the oldest, first since 1992 to have more than 4 children, and also first since 1992 to win the presidential election without Florida.
EytanMelech
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Level 66
May 11, 2021
And losing 18 bellwether counties.
FlyingG
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Level 68
Nov 7, 2020
Oooh I actually have a good one

In the Arabic language, there is no letter for "p", so places like Pakistan, Persia, and Porto Alegre would become Bakistan, Bersia, and Borto Alegre. (source: my dad told me this when i was little)

FlyingG
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Level 68
Nov 7, 2020
However, for many foreign things such as Pepsi, they added a new letter that is like the baa letter but with three dots instead of two
FlyingG
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Level 68
Nov 7, 2020
Though most Arabic people can't pronounce "p".
TheLocalMilkMan
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Level 43
Nov 9, 2020
Baa only has one dot
FlyingG
+1
Level 68
Nov 10, 2020
Oh oops.I meant yaa.
JetPunker180
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Level 54
Nov 9, 2020
It is forbidden for Hindus to travel in sea.
Malbaby
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Level 70
Apr 16, 2021
So India has no submarines then.
NV1
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Level 55
Nov 9, 2020
?? I'm a Hindu and I can confirm there's nothing like that in our religion.
JetPunker180
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Level 54
Nov 10, 2020
it was old belief.
filiphoset
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Level 63
Nov 11, 2020
It is forbidden for Hindus to eat food and sleep
Rougarou
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Level 64
Nov 16, 2024
Be pretty difficult for most people to eat sleep.
SirPhilippines
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Level 73
Nov 9, 2020
The U.S. dollar bill is 75% cotton and 25% linen.
NV1
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Level 55
Nov 9, 2020
7,777 in word form in German is siebentausendsiebenhundertsiebundsiebzig.
Inactiveaccount
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Level 37
Nov 9, 2020
17,326,455 in finnish is seitsemäntoista miljoonaa kolmesataa kaksikymmentäkuusi tuhatta neljäsataa viisikymmentäviisi
Malbaby
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Level 70
Apr 16, 2021
In English it is Seventeenmillionthreehundredandtwentysixthousandfourhundredandfiftyfive:
Falzino
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Level 11
Feb 13, 2024
in french its "Dix-Sept-Millions-Trois-Cent-Vingt-Six-Milles-Quatre-Cent-Cinquante-Cinq"
PetiteFoireuse
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Level 57
Apr 23, 2024
???

That would be 17 326 455. Plus, your spelling leaves a little to be desired (but then, French kids struggle to learn to spell numbers in school, so... The rules were greatly simplified a while ago, but as a numeral, "mille" still never takes a plural marking).

IsleAuHaulte
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Level 92
Feb 18, 2021
Fact: the longest German word or how common that word really is, is debated endlessly.
Malbaby
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Level 70
Feb 4, 2022
'debated endlessly' is 2 words
PetiteFoireuse
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Level 57
Apr 23, 2024
...siebenundsiebzig...

You forgot a few ;-)

Geographystar
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Level 68
Nov 12, 2020
I haven't checked for after the 2020 election, but the majority of U.S. senators (51) are over the age of 65, which is the age most people retire at.
NV1
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Level 55
Nov 14, 2020
Now its 52 because Cory Gardner lost.
Dollyfroggy
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Level 63
Nov 14, 2022
Spoilers!
FlyingG
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Level 68
Nov 12, 2020
"little" in Romanian is called "putin".
FlyingG
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Level 68
Nov 12, 2020
Source: youtube
angrobper14
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Level 86
Nov 13, 2020
You don't really want to know what does "putin" means in Spanish...
morcaca
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Level 59
Dec 3, 2020
I'm pretty sure "putin" is an explicit word in French as well.
brandybuck96
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Level 82
Dec 7, 2023
Yes, if you pronounce it in French as it's spelled in English, it's a pretty rude word. The French get around it by calling him 'Poutine', which is somehow even funnier.
PetiteFoireuse
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Level 57
Apr 23, 2024
At least that's spelled differently: putAin.
SirPhilippines
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Level 73
Nov 13, 2020
Is it true!?! I got a fact on!?!
Queefola
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Level 41
Jul 6, 2021
@518: Any German lawyers out there that have had to include this word in documents or drafts? Probably adds a few pages overall.
LuigiDood227
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Level 72
Apr 6, 2022
520 may not be "currently" going soon
equivallent
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Level 54
May 16, 2023
i'm pretty sure that 518 is wrong since there is a word called rindfleischettikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz (64 letters!) which means law of the assigning of the overseeing of the labeling of the beef meat. it was abolished in 2013 though
JesseFromThe6
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Level 70
Oct 4, 2023
Interest rates definitely aren't low now in 2023.
djeedubbeljoe
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Level 67
Mar 4, 2024
Is that fact about Greece paying negative interest still accurate? Rates have been going up lately.
Rougarou
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Level 64
Nov 16, 2024
By the sounds of it, this was during the pandemic.
In2restingFacts
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Level 27
Aug 4, 2025
517 is straight-up copied from Wikipedia
mightythor
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Level 68
Oct 1, 2025
This reddit thread includes comments from George Kourounis, a man who has been to the bottom of the crater described in #520.
SirPhilippines
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Level 73
Feb 24, 2026
Update: Seems like the Gates of Hell have been slowly dying out as of late.
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