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As of 2018, only 2% of English adults aged 18–24 belonged to the Church of England while 70% claimed to have no religion. Henry VIII must be rolling in his grave.
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The S in Harry S. Truman's name was not an abbreviation. His middle name was S.
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A single apartment building in Hangzhou, China is home to an estimated 10,000–20,000 residents.
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The ancestor of domestic cattle was a creature known as an "aurochs". Aurochs were hunted to extinction gradually over thousands of years. The last known individual died in Poland in 1627 AD.
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If you look at a graph of worldwide deaths per year since 1950, it is mostly a smooth line except for two big spikes. The first was Mao's Great Leap Forward. The second was Covid-19.
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"I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people."
And, if it were to pile up into 1 giant ball, it would be as wide and tall as 860 meters!
Can you slap your hand through a table in 10 years?
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I can see that.
also how long do you just spend your time just looking for these type of stuff
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.6570153,70.0118346,8z
1. Libya is more than twice as big as germany, but only has one-fifth the population!
2. There's an island off the coast of scotland that still writes English using the Anglo-Saxon runic alphabet.
3. There are 5 islands in china that have a higher population than all of Switzerland-Hainan, Zhongshan, Xiamen, Haizhu, and Cangshan.
4. The german word for "no" is "nein," pronounced like "nine," the word for "nine" is "naun," pronounced like "noun," and the word for "noun" is "no."
5. Every country that won the olympic handball competition from 1948 - 1988 no longer exists today.
6. More people died of Spanish flu in the year 1918 than died of Bubonic plague in the entire 14th century.
7. Guinea and France are the only two countries which have had a president with the same name as the demonym of the country.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive
Coca cola used to be green
When moon is directly overhead you will weigh slightly less. For example, a person with weight 100kg will weigh 0.5 kg less
https://www.reddit.com/r/Astronomy/comments/ueu3d/when_the_moon_is_directly_overhead_does_its/
2. Sauerkrout was renamed Liberty Cabbage during WW1 in the United States, to be less German.
3. Tanzania is a merger of Tanganyika and Zanzibar.
4. The Anglo-Zanzibar War lasted 38-45 minutes.
5. The American National Anthem, The Star Spangled Banner, has 3 extra stanzas that aren't sung. The German National Anthem is somewhat similar.
6. The American National Anthem, The Star Spangled Banner, was inspired by the Battle of Fort McHenry
7. 24 Elements are man-made (out of 118). More could be possible.
8. N. Korea & S. Korea don't recognize each other's existence & claim the entirety of their peninsula.
9. Taiwan has border disputes with many countries that border China, since it claims the entirety of China.
@Zzineohp: number seven was pretty interesting.
(Sarcasm)
source: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D1%81%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%B9%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE%D1%85%D0%BE%D0%B7%D1%8F%D0%B9%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%BF%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BF%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%8C_(2016)
After losing the bid for presidency, Cox stepped down from public service to focus on his media conglomerate: Cox Enterprises. At the time of his death, he was worth an estimated $39.6 billion, making him the richest (major) presidential candidate of all time.
67 Cities are named Xinglong
As the vice presidency has no term limits, you could theoretically be elected to the role in every election under a different candidate. If your candidate died before Inauguration Day every time, you would be sworn in as president for the full four years. Repeat this process, and you have become president for life.
The westernmost point of travel in the United States is called... Point Udall (on Guam). Both points were named after brothers.
It's definitely a top 5 state flag personally
The flag
Idk just me though
Dassler Brother Shoe Factory. As in |Adi Das|sler.
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVWMIsHMQPs
In 1688, dozens of towns across England geared up for war due to rumors of an Irish Army invading and pillaging the countryside. The actual army, which was hired by the King, had already left, but rumors of it still ran wild.
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Additionally, he didn't win every electoral vote: one elector from New Hampshire cast a vote for John Quincy Adams.
Not that any of this mattered, anyways: Grant won the election in a landslide.
Ironically, Biden won Afghanistan in this election by one vote (out of three total cast).
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