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793 US counties do not have a single McDonald's.
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Most US states let you turn left on a red light, as long as you're going from one one-way street onto another.
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Just 71,968 people in Ireland speak Irish daily outside school, according to the 2022 census.
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Indiana's official demonym only changed from Indianan to Hoosier in 2016.
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In 1107 King Sigurd I of Norway set sail for the Holy Land with a fleet of about 60 ships.
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The Frome Hoard, found in a Somerset field in 2010, held 52,503 Roman coins in a single pot.
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About 90% of the old-growth forest that stood in the contiguous United States in the 1600s has been cleared.
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The Shipping Forecast divides the waters around the British Isles into 31 named sea areas.
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Amtrak carried 34.5 million passengers in fiscal year 2025, an all-time record for the railway.
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Australia's national sheep flock numbered about 180 million in the late 1980s, its peak.
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When Amtrak took over in 1971 it kept only about half of America's intercity passenger train routes.
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Land around America's biggest cities is estimated at $1 million or more per hectare.
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The longest road in the world stops at this 100 km stretch of jungle, and the reason it was never finished isn't the jungle. Satellite imagery: EOxCloudless by EOX IT Services GmbH (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2016). Terrain: AWS Terrain Tiles.
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The lowest point in America's Basin and Range is Badwater Basin in Death Valley, 86 m below sea level.
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Scotland has the highest proportion of red-haired people in the world, at around 13% of the population.
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About 2.4 million people lived in the thirteen American colonies in 1775.
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The Louisiana Purchase of 1803 added 827,192 square miles to the United States in a single deal.
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On his fourth voyage Christopher Columbus was shipwrecked on Jamaica and stranded there for about a year.
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St Augustine in Florida, founded by Spain in 1565, is the oldest continuously inhabited European settlement in the contiguous US.
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The name Tex-Mex began as shorthand for the Texas Mexican Railway, chartered in 1875.
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In 1931 Norway occupied part of East Greenland and named it Erik the Red's Land.
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