re: Post a random fact or piece of trivia in this thread

If you go directly south from Detroit you will end up in Canada

Sharks have existed longer than trees.

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Maine is the closest state to Africa.

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But Africa is not the closest country to Maine. How can both be true?

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But Africa is not the closest country

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Huh?

Alaska is so big you can fit 75 New Jersey’s in it.

The German Shepard was called an "Alsation" during war time. The breed was used by both sides to fight during world war 1 But the British/French didn’t want to call their dogs German so they decided on the name "Alsatian” named after a French province. After world war 2 the Brits changed the name back to German Shepherd Dog however there are still countries/people in Europe who still refer to it exclusively as an "Alsation" today.

The Wombat is the only animal that shits squares

The crack sound from a whip is a mini sonic boom

The equations that govern fluid flow, including weather, flow over a car, climate, etc., have been known for hundreds of years, but have never been solved.

In fact, the Clay institute of mathematics will write you a check for one million dollars cash if you can just show one solution.

Everyone knows Texas is huge.

You can get from Pensacola Florida through five states, across the panhandle of FL, longways all the way through Alabama, across Tennessee, across Kentucky, and into Indiana faster than you can get just within Florida to Miami

The map does a poor job of conveying just how long that dong of Florida is. Miami is underrated as the most remote major American city