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   / Tell us something we don’t know. #91  
Jstpssng said:
I don't think so. It's more of a spheroid, bulging at the equator as it's spinning.



Or maybe it's flat...
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reduce the earth to the diameter of a pool ball, do the math, and check your results.
 
   / Tell us something we don’t know. #92  
Point Roberts, Washington. Only accessible on land through Canada.
The Oregon Treaty settled the border dispute without realizing there was land just south of Canada below the 49th parallel


Covid border restrictions nearly decimated the town over the last 2 years as food and goods could not be moved by truck.
 
   / Tell us something we don’t know. #93  
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   / Tell us something we don’t know. #94  
Napoleon's most prized cutlery was a set of four made out of aluminum. Others got to eat with cutlery of platinum or gold.

The top of the Washington monument is a 100oz pyramid of aluminum, placed there in 1884.

Charles Martin Hall developed the electrolytic reduction technique that made aluminum cheap and plentiful in 1886. His company is better known as Alcoa these days.
Paul (Louis-Toussaint) Héroult also discovered a similar method of aluminum refining at the same time. Both men started working on the problem in their teens, both came up with the solution at the age of 22.
 
   / Tell us something we don’t know. #95  
In 1628, the Swedish warship Vasa set out on it's maiden voyage. It only went about a mile before it was caught by the wind and heeled over, took on water and sank.
The designers created a ship that had too high of a center of gravity dooming it.

 
   / Tell us something we don’t know. #96  
If the sum of the digits of any number is divisible by three, so is the number.
 
   / Tell us something we don’t know. #97  
Soil grows plants and gives life

Dirt is something you have under your finger nails.
 
   / Tell us something we don’t know. #98  
Pie are Round

Brownies are square.
 
   / Tell us something we don’t know. #99  
Lobster was considered unfit for human consumption in France and was fed to prisoners (not recently)
 
   / Tell us something we don’t know. #100  
bunyip said:
Lobster was considered unfit for human consumption in France and was fed to prisoners (not recently)
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They used lobster for fertilizer years ago.
 
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