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In 1840, German astronomers Wilhelm Beer and Johann Heinrich Mädler created the first comprehensive map of Mars.
The longest unbroken alliance in world history is between England and Portugal. It has lasted since 1386 and still stands today.
The Scottish-American Soldiers Monument in Edinburgh is the only monument to the American Civil War outside the United States.
Cusco, the capital of the Incan Empire, means “bellybutton” in Quechua, as the Incas saw it as the central point or “navel” of their empire.
Liechtenstein realized at the 1936 Olympic Games that its blue-red flag was identical to Haiti’s civil flag, so the following year, they added a gold crown to distinguish it.
The kookaburra is native to Australia and New Guinea; its calls are often used as sound effects in movies for jungles in Africa or South America.
Roughly 15 million Filipinos live overseas. The US has the largest share, with 3.35 million citizens and over 4 million people of Filipino descent.
In 2014, the North Korean government published a recommended list of ten “state-approved” hairstyles for men and eighteen for women as part of a campaign against “capitalist” fashion.
The Turks and Caicos Islands have been proposed as Canada’s next province multiple times since 1917, but no formal steps have been taken.
California was once a Russian colony. Until 1841, Russians controlled land as far south as Bodega Bay, just 50 miles north of San Francisco.
The British Cemetery on Ocracoke Island, North Carolina, is leased as British land and flies the UK flag to honor four sailors from the HMT Bedfordshire who lost their lives in WWII.
The entire world population could fit in Texas, with each person having over 900 square feet, given Texas’s area of about 268,597 square miles.
The Great Wall of China has stood for centuries due to a unique mortar mix of sticky rice flour and slaked lime.
On September 19, 1967, the Republic of Benin was declared but lasted only seven hours before Nigerian forces retook Benin City.
The world’s most remote ATMs are operated by Wells Fargo in Antarctica, serving over 1,000 residents at the U.S. McMurdo Station.
The 1831 London Bridge couldn’t handle the amount of traffic it was getting, so in 1968, it was sold, dismantled, and rebuilt in Arizona as a tourist attraction in Lake Havasu City.
