There is an entire city in Nevada into which the general public isn’t allowed to go.
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Russia is suspected to have at least 15 secret cities. These “closed cities” are officially classified by the government, with their names and location unknown, they appear on no maps, no road signs will direct you to them, and visits from foreigners are strictly prohibited.
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10-year old Tilly Smith saved her family and 100 other tourists from the 2004 Asian tsunami, by recognizing signs of tsunamis she had learned in a geography lesson two weeks before.
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Ebenezer Place, in Wick, Caithness, Scotland
, is credited by the Guinness Book of Records as being the world’s shortest street at 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in). In 2006 it surpassed the previous record (5.2 m, 17 ft) set by Elgin Street, Bacup, Lancashire. The street has only one address: the front door of No. 1 Bistro, which is part of Mackays Hotel.
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The Sargasso Sea is a region in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by ocean currents, and this is the only sea that has no coast.
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Pluto is as big as Russia.
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The town of Ixonia, Wisconsin, is so named because when a name for the town couldn’t be agreed upon, six letters were drawn randomly out of a hat and arranged to name the town.
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There is a lake that drains into both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
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There’s a floating island the size of a football field in Springfield, Massachusetts that destroys fences and sheds as it occasionally moves around.
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The country of Liechtenstein is so small that in 2007, Swiss troops accidentally invaded it after getting lost in a rain storm.
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It takes about 2 and a half hours to get from kissing to f***ing.
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There is a patch of land between Egypt and Sudan that is not claimed by any country.
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There have been many attempts to officially return Mt. McKinley to its Native American name Denali, but congresspeople from Ohio (President McKinley’s home state) have procedurally blocked them for over 35 years.
