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During the American Civil War, 168,649 men were drafted by the Northern states. However, nearly 70% of the men that were drafted hired substitutes to fight in their place.
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U.S. politicians Bill Clinton and Mike Huckabee were both born in the small town of Hope, Arkansas.
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Canada's Justin Bieber is allowed to reside in the United States because he has an O-1 visa, given to "individuals with an extraordinary ability in the arts or extraordinary achievement in motion picture or television industry".
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In Arthurian legend it is unclear whether Excalibur is the same as the Sword in the Stone. In some stories, they are. In others, Excalibur is given to Arthur by the Lady of the Lake after he had already become king.
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The record for the fastest manned jet aircraft is held by the SR-71 Blackbird, whose record speed of 2,193.2 miles per hour was recorded in 1976.
24 Comments
kenpo17
+35
Level 65
Jun 4, 2018
Who gave Bieber that kind of visa? They should reconsider.
kalbahamut
+34
Level 79
Jul 14, 2018
They're not sending us their best. Let's build a wall.
qcumber
+10
Level 45
Nov 14, 2018
Someone's getting fired for doing that.
TheSavageGeographer
+7
Level 45
Oct 30, 2019
You weren't supposed to do that
JWatson24
+7
Level 71
Jan 31, 2020
Well we got John Oliver from it too so I think it balances out
YellowJacket
+10
Level 80
May 11, 2020
Hard to build a wall for the UK.
Pontiac
+2
Level 61
Nov 19, 2025
How about a Seawall
IsleAuHaulte
+4
Level 92
Nov 23, 2018
#62 Sarah Huckabee Sanders is from Hope, but would get indignant and flatly lie she was born somewhere else.
Boro
+3
Level 67
Mar 18, 2019
Portugal is missing
IsleAuHaulte
+35
Level 92
Oct 28, 2019
Funny, it was there right next to Spain this morning.
pmeplant
+3
Level 49
Oct 20, 2019
All individuals granted an O-1 visa should be an exchangeable commodity. I propose that the United States offer to trade Justin Bieber to France for Eva Green.
McKenzieFam
+2
Level 68
Apr 3, 2020
No. 63 makes me want to be an "individual with a extraordinary ability in the arts or extraordinary achievement in motion picture or television industry."
EytanMelech
+5
Level 66
May 18, 2020
I would not describe Justin Bieber as one of those "individuals with an extraordinary ability in the arts or extraordinary achievement in motion picture or television industry".
Malbaby
+16
Level 70
Jun 22, 2020
I think Bieber's fame is an extraordinary achievement for someone with his lack of talent.
IamTheSam
+2
Level 48
Jul 6, 2021
Hmmm, I'd never thought of it that way.
McKenzieFam
+1
Level 68
Jul 28, 2022
Sometime in the past 100,000 people signed a petition 'send Bieber back to canada' or something like. He wasn't.
IamTheSam
+7
Level 48
Jul 6, 2021
In something of a historical tragedy, the King of England has never been called Arthur. There almost was: Prince Arthur, Henry VIII's older brother, looked set to become king, but died of a mysterious ailment in his early teens.

Still, the Royals have had almost exactly 500 years to right this egregious mistake. Over to you, young Prince George.

Freestatebear
+2
Level 88
Dec 20, 2023
Maybe they'd rather not acknowledge that they know almost nothing about the guy in the myths (round table, magic sword, farcical aquatic ceremonies, etc.), including the fact that he may not have even existed at all.

Plus, when the modern Arthur becomes king, he'd have to live up to over a millennium of exaggerated mythology.

RedPenguinLol
+1
Level 87
Mar 30, 2026
Arthur was originally a Welsh figure who fought against the invading Anglo-Saxons, so under the modern understanding of the myth it might be a little awkward to have an English king named after him.
lucd13
+3
Level 70
Sep 7, 2021
Haven't many people gotten one of those? I know Iggy Azalea is one and many don't like her (not me, she's done her country proud!)
EytanMelech
+2
Level 66
Sep 11, 2021
I had no idea until now that she was not American.
kalbahamut
+4
Level 79
Oct 18, 2021
I had such a little boy crush on the SR-71 when I was a kid. That and the Lamborghini Countach. I still remember vividly the first time I got to see one of the former - I was about 12 years old and attending Space Camp in Huntsville, Alabama that year. Such a beautiful plane. (and the first time I saw one of the latter I think was at a shopping mall in Toronto where you could pay $25 to sit in it and have your picture taken - I recall the beige leather interior and the 1980s' era car phone) Now there's a Blackbird sitting in the Udvar-Havy wing of the Air & Space Museum in Chantilly, just down the road from where I grew up. I probably would have gone to visit more often if that was there when I was younger.

Even though the SR-71 still has the official record for fastest fixed-wing piloted aircraft, the A-12 Oxcart also developed by Lockheed was faster. Just never officially recorded as it was only used by the CIA.

Jugler
+1
Level 60
Dec 8, 2024
nothing confuses me more than the fact that it says last updated in 2014 but it includes australia and doesnt include portugal
bananawana
+1
Level 32
Feb 4, 2026
I might be missing something, but what the hell are you talking about?
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