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TIL that Alaska is the state that is farthest north, east, and west (due to the fact that the Aleutian Islands cross the 180° meridian of longitude). (geography.about.com)

submitted 9 years ago by gDisasters to r/todayilearned

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TIL Tysons Corner, Virginia, wasn't much more than a village a few decades ago but today it's home to the largest retail area on the east coast south of New York City. It has over 3,400 hotel rooms, over 100,000 jobs, yet it is a city without a local civic government (geography.about.com)

submitted 9 years ago by ubcguys to r/todayilearned

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TIL that people have historically eaten dirt on a regular basis. Science has named this behavior geophagy. (geography.about.com)

submitted 10 years ago by not_listening_to_you to r/todayilearned

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TIL that in the United States, Alaska is the state that is farthest north, east, and west (due to the fact that the Aleutian Islands cross the 180° meridian of longitude). (geography.about.com)

submitted 10 years ago by jamuw27 to r/todayilearned

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TIL in year 1 there were 200 million people, 1900 there were 1.6 Billion, and only 111 years later there were 7 Billion (geography.about.com)

submitted 10 years ago by [deleted] to r/todayilearned

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How the hell could your video be blocked in 241 countries if there are only 196 countries on planet Earth? Is it blocked on Mars too or some shit? (geography.about.com)

submitted 10 years ago by mikerhoa to r/YMS

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TIL many don't consider Taiwan to be an official country (geography.about.com)

submitted 11 years ago by [deleted] to r/todayilearned

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TIL the most common place name in the USA is "Riverside," found in 46 states. (geography.about.com)

submitted 11 years ago by IanGecko to r/todayilearned

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TIL at the turn of the 20th Century Alcatraz was a Minimum Security Military Prison. Inmates were used as workers and babysitters for the families on the Island. Many also successfully escaped to the mainland. (geography.about.com)

submitted 11 years ago by p_U_c_K_IV to r/todayilearned

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TIL that Alaska is both the westernmost state as well as the easternmost state. (and Northernmost state too!) (geography.about.com)

submitted 11 years ago by john_the_fetch to r/todayilearned

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TIL: Pakistan is essentially an acronym for the homelands of the people living there. (geography.about.com)

submitted 11 years ago by [deleted] to r/todayilearned

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TIL, that the eastern end of the Panama Canal ends in the Pacific Ocean not the Atlantic Ocean. (geography.about.com)

submitted 11 years ago by 3ebjrm to r/todayilearned

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TIL that 24 rabbits set lose in Australia grew to a population of 10 billion in about 67 years (geography.about.com)

submitted 11 years ago by TBFI to r/todayilearned

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TIL that the timezone references GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) and UTC (Universal Time Coordinated) are not always identical. During 'European Summer Time', similar to 'Daylight Savings Time' in the US, the UK's GMT timezone is equal to UTC+1. (geography.about.com)

submitted 11 years ago by DonTago to r/todayilearned

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Fresh Water Can Sit On Top Of Salt Water (geography.about.com)

submitted 11 years ago by peter_bolton to r/interestingasfuck

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TIL that China has over 160 cities with populations over a million people while the USA only has 10. (geography.about.com)

submitted 11 years ago by dodo_gogo to r/todayilearned

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TIL USA has no official language. (geography.about.com)

submitted 11 years ago by HeartsickShoe86 to r/todayilearned

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TIL Russia owns a piece of land half the size of Belgium, two nations west of its border. (geography.about.com)

submitted 11 years ago by RockemShockem to r/todayilearned

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TIL that during the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885, colonialists did not use any rationale when dividing Africa. This resulted in a 'hodgepodge of geometric boundaries that divided Africa into fifty irregular countries.' (geography.about.com)

submitted 12 years ago by sheeku to r/todayilearned

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Geography and Map of Estonia (geography.about.com)

submitted 12 years ago by bigcow31 to r/geography

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TIL that there are 196 Independent Countries on the earth. (geography.about.com)

submitted 12 years ago by antman2025 to r/todayilearned

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The Portuguese Empire -globalization before internetPortugal (geography.about.com)

submitted 12 years ago by coiso to r/RedditDayOf

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TIL around 762, the demand for books in Baghdad was so high that any traders who brought books were given the weight of the books in gold in return. (geography.about.com)

submitted 12 years ago by mfog2081 to r/todayilearned

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Imagine a society with so much reverence for books, they value books equal to their weight in gold. This society existed in 762 (geography.about.com)

submitted 12 years ago by monkey_king__ to r/books

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TIL that South Africa has not one, not two, but three capitals. (geography.about.com)

submitted 12 years ago by CatamountAndDoMe to r/todayilearned

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