Only one piece of glass from the Twin Towers survived its collapse on 9/11 intact6mo ⋅ cjfullinfaw07 ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
If you shine a laser through a Canadian banknote’s maple leaf, you will see the note’s denomination appear on the wall3yr ⋅ cjfullinfaw07 ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
Every year in April, an annual volleyball tournament occurs between the residents of Naco, Arizona, USA and Naco, Sonora, Mexico where the border wall is used as the volleyball net. It is known as wallyball.4yr ⋅ cjfullinfaw07 ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
The Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest building, is so tall and its elevators so fast that when the sun sets at ground level, you can take the elevator to the top and watch the sun set again.3yr ⋅ cjfullinfaw07 ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
Underwater waterfall off the coast of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean1yr ⋅ cjfullinfaw07 ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
Iowa is the only state whose eastern and western boundaries are entirely rivers.3yr ⋅ cjfullinfaw07 ⋅ r/MapPorn
Results of the 1984 United States Presidential election by county. The most lopsided election in history, the only state Reagan failed to win was his opponent’s, Minnesota.5yr ⋅ cjfullinfaw07 ⋅ r/MapPorn
U.S. counties that have more LGBT people per capita than the national average1yr ⋅ cjfullinfaw07 ⋅ r/MapPorn
The entirety of the 8,891- km land border between Canada and the U.S. is marked by a 6- m slash, where no trees are allowed to grow3yr ⋅ cjfullinfaw07 ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
Due to lockdowns last year, the Himalayas were visible from nearly 200 km away in Saharanpur, India for the first time in 30 years.3yr ⋅ cjfullinfaw07 ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
Windsor, Ontario is the southernmost major city in Canada and the only place in Canada requiring one to travel north to enter the U.S.1yr ⋅ cjfullinfaw07 ⋅ r/MapPorn
Between 1949 and 1999, Northwest Territories was the largest sub-national jurisdiction in the world, being larger than India in total area.4yr ⋅ cjfullinfaw07 ⋅ r/MapPorn
Jose Mujica, who was President of Uruguay from 2010 to 2015, has been described as the “world’s humblest head of state” because of his frugal lifestyle and donating around 90 percent of his monthly salary to charities.4yr ⋅ cjfullinfaw07 ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
Hoovervilles were shantytowns built by the American homeless population during the Great Depression in the 1930s; they numbered in the hundreds during the decade and were all destroyed in the 1940s1yr ⋅ cjfullinfaw07 ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
This is Margaret Ann Neve, the first person in recorded history whose lifetime spanned three different centuries. She lived from 1792 to 1903 and is pictured here in 1902, aged 110 years.4yr ⋅ cjfullinfaw07 ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
‘We didn’t win the revolutionary war to have to bend to your wills or millimeters [sic]’4mo ⋅ cjfullinfaw07 ⋅ r/ShitAmericansSay
‘Let’s send the dems over to the UK or Pakistan for a few months and see how they like not having the freedoms we do here.’3mo ⋅ cjfullinfaw07 ⋅ r/ShitAmericansSay
People in the Southern Hemisphere see the moon as a 180° rotated image from people in the Northern Hemisphere and vice versa.3yr ⋅ cjfullinfaw07 ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
‘...F[ahrenheit] aligns better with our climate... like 0 is super cold, 100 is super hot. In Celsius it goes from like -20 to 40 in most climates, seems arbitrary.’11mo ⋅ cjfullinfaw07 ⋅ r/ShitAmericansSay
I’m Peruvian American though so I wanted to reference Latin America’s immigrant community...only been to Lima unfortunately10mo ⋅ cjfullinfaw07 ⋅ r/ShitAmericansSay
The 1974-75 Australian bushfire season was the worst on record, burning 15 % of the continent’s landmass (1,170,000 km2)10mo ⋅ cjfullinfaw07 ⋅ r/geography
‘Maybe we should have the metric system from every other country switch to the U.S. imperial system? I don’t feel like re-learning anything.’5mo ⋅ cjfullinfaw07 ⋅ r/ShitAmericansSay
The Russian people are not our enemy, but members of Congress would have you think otherwise2yr ⋅ cjfullinfaw07 ⋅ r/ShitLiberalsSay
“...if it wasn’t America’s hat, no one would care about Canada”1yr ⋅ cjfullinfaw07 ⋅ r/ShitAmericansSay
“If England was part of America, they would be more poor than Mississippi”1yr ⋅ cjfullinfaw07 ⋅ r/ShitAmericansSay
‘Why would we want to intake some third world impoverished nation like Canada?’1mo ⋅ cjfullinfaw07 ⋅ r/ShitAmericansSay
Saw the Pride flag flying outside a house in the conservative part of my city!4yr ⋅ cjfullinfaw07 ⋅ r/lgbt
“...Fahrenheit might be the only imperial unit that is superior to it's metric equivalent for everyday use...a more intuitive scale for making decisions about activities, clothes, etc.”10mo ⋅ cjfullinfaw07 ⋅ r/ShitAmericansSay
Holy moly cannoli (I’m Italian). 102 degrees Fahrenheit...in Chile9mo ⋅ cjfullinfaw07 ⋅ r/ShitAmericansSay
‘Most major human milestones in the last 100 years were done in imperial measurements. Space flight, cell phones, jets, etc.’3wk ⋅ cjfullinfaw07 ⋅ r/ShitAmericansSay
Due to its unique shape, the geographic centre of Croatia is actually located in Bosnia and Herzegovina4yr ⋅ cjfullinfaw07 ⋅ r/MapPorn
‘Enjoy waiting 60+ days to be seen by a doctor in those countries. Socialist healthcare does not work’1mo ⋅ cjfullinfaw07 ⋅ r/ShitAmericansSay
President Joe Biden was born closer to the end of the Civil War than to today.3yr ⋅ cjfullinfaw07 ⋅ r/BarbaraWalters4Scale
Healthcare in the U.S. is a joke; the fact that they’re grateful the total bill got lowered to $2,000 goes to show how bad it is1yr ⋅ cjfullinfaw07 ⋅ r/AmerExit
A cloud passing in between the World Trade Centre’s Twin Towers, 19983yr ⋅ cjfullinfaw07 ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
The results of the 1984 US presidential election by county. Republican Ronald Reagan won the most electoral college votes of any presidential candidate in history, winning 525 of the 538 votes available and only lost in Minnesota and Washington, D.C.3yr ⋅ cjfullinfaw07 ⋅ r/MapPorn
‘Actually, it’s 35mph which is damn fast but certainly not up to 60mph. Where did you come up with that?’2mo ⋅ cjfullinfaw07 ⋅ r/ShitAmericansSay
‘Everything you are using right now was invented in the US (which is by far the richest, most powerful, innovative and influential country in history of the world)’9mo ⋅ cjfullinfaw07 ⋅ r/ShitAmericansSay
George Washington is the only president who didn’t live long enough to see the world’s population reach 1 billion3yr ⋅ cjfullinfaw07 ⋅ r/BarbaraWalters4Scale
Betty White has died. Her acting career began in 1930, the same year as the first FIFA World Cup.2yr ⋅ cjfullinfaw07 ⋅ r/BarbaraWalters4Scale
Living in the U.S. means risking your child’s life every time you drop them off at school1yr ⋅ cjfullinfaw07 ⋅ r/AmerExit
“Y’all would be speaking German if it wasn’t for us lmao. Cmon now.”1yr ⋅ cjfullinfaw07 ⋅ r/ShitAmericansSay
Housed inside a former aircraft hangar, Tropical Islands Resort in Germany is the world's largest indoor water park; the hangar is so high that, under the right conditions, it is known to create its own weather.3yr ⋅ cjfullinfaw07 ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
There it is! Kane Tanaka is now, officially, the second oldest person ever, overtaking Sarah Knauss of the USA2yr ⋅ cjfullinfaw07 ⋅ r/BarbaraWalters4Scale
Nan Wood Graham and Dr. Byron McKeeby were the models for American Gothic and are pictured here with the famous painting.3yr ⋅ cjfullinfaw07 ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
“No other country has matched what the US has done under Biden in regards to climate action”1yr ⋅ cjfullinfaw07 ⋅ r/ShitAmericansSay
“I feel the most connected ethnically and by heart and soul to Germany.”1yr ⋅ cjfullinfaw07 ⋅ r/ShitAmericansSay
Route 66 was established in 1926, but President Jimmy Carter was born in 1924, meaning Jimmy is older than Route 66.3yr ⋅ cjfullinfaw07 ⋅ r/BarbaraWalters4Scale
The entirety of Poland can fit within the US state of Texas with enough room to drive around it1yr ⋅ cjfullinfaw07 ⋅ r/MapPorn
Geert Adriaans Boomgaard, the world’s first supercentenarian, was born the same year that Europeans colonized Australia (1788) and died the same year of the first fatal car accident (1899).3yr ⋅ cjfullinfaw07 ⋅ r/BarbaraWalters4Scale
The 1,214 km long Portugal-Spain border, also referred to as ‘The Stripe’ (La Raya / A Raia), is one of the oldest borders on Earth, being almost identical to that defined by the Treaty of Alcanices in 1297.1yr ⋅ cjfullinfaw07 ⋅ r/geography
‘One of the problems with allowing Europeans on the platform [Twitter]. They don’t have freedom of speech’7mo ⋅ cjfullinfaw07 ⋅ r/ShitAmericansSay
‘Ain’t no such thing as free. Someone always pays...there’s a reason academia overwhelmingly votes/donates Dem’1mo ⋅ cjfullinfaw07 ⋅ r/ShitAmericansSay
“Base 12 allows for the use of fractions, which is more efficient for arithmetic, especially without using a calculator”1yr ⋅ cjfullinfaw07 ⋅ r/ShitAmericansSay
If actor Peter Brocco, seen here at 72 y.o. as Col. Matterson in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975), were still alive, he’d still not be the oldest living person2yr ⋅ cjfullinfaw07 ⋅ r/BarbaraWalters4Scale
“American states are just as big as foreign countries, whether your talking about economies, geographies, politics, or cultural importance”1yr ⋅ cjfullinfaw07 ⋅ r/ShitAmericansSay
Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield’s nighttime image of Berlin from space distinctly shows the former divide of East and West Berlin, indicated by the East’s sodium vapour lamps (yellow) and the West’s fluorescent lamps (white).4yr ⋅ cjfullinfaw07 ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
In Ireland, postcodes are for individual addresses, meaning that it’s possible for a letter to contain only the postcode and have it be correctly delivered to the person’s address2yr ⋅ cjfullinfaw07 ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
Iowa is the only American state whose eastern and western boundaries are entirely rivers.3yr ⋅ cjfullinfaw07 ⋅ r/geography
Whitehorse, YT, Canada is closer to Reykjavik, Iceland than it is to St. John's, NL, Canada.3yr ⋅ cjfullinfaw07 ⋅ r/geography
The Sammarinese commune (castello) of Montegiardino is the smallest country subdivision on Earth, with an area of just 3.31 km21yr ⋅ cjfullinfaw07 ⋅ r/geography
Happy 20th anniversary to the Netherlands becoming the first country in the world to legalize same-sex marriage! (1 April 2001)3yr ⋅ cjfullinfaw07 ⋅ r/lgbt
The Vatican City is the only place on earth where ATM customers can opt for instructions in Latin1yr ⋅ cjfullinfaw07 ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
Dimensions of the Siliguri Corridor (in kilometres), which connects India’s northeastern states to the rest of the country1yr ⋅ cjfullinfaw07 ⋅ r/MapPorn
I’d seen the Westgate Plaza sign before, but only bothered to take a picture today as I was in town for work. After some quick googling, I found out it’s from 1961!8mo ⋅ cjfullinfaw07 ⋅ r/Omaha
From 1949 to 1999, the Northwest Territories was the largest sub-national jurisdiction in the world, being larger than India in total area4yr ⋅ cjfullinfaw07 ⋅ r/geography
Nebraska-Iowa boundary at the Bob Kerry Pedestrian Bridge in Omaha, NE3yr ⋅ cjfullinfaw07 ⋅ r/Borderporn
‘We write dates like we say them, like we wouldn’t say “It’s the 7th of April” we’d say “It’s April 7th”2wk ⋅ cjfullinfaw07 ⋅ r/ShitAmericansSay
While Texas is known for having the highest number of counties (254), the state that holds the number two spot on the list is Georgia, with 159.4yr ⋅ cjfullinfaw07 ⋅ r/geography
Of the Canadian provinces that border the U.S., Saskatchewan is the only one that does not have direct access to an American interstate route.3yr ⋅ cjfullinfaw07 ⋅ r/Borderporn
The $7.2 million USD cheque used by the United States to purchase Alaska from Russia in October, 1867.3yr ⋅ cjfullinfaw07 ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
The shortest single segment of a boundary between two countries is 55 metres between Sweden and Finland on the small island of Market1yr ⋅ cjfullinfaw07 ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
Jeanne Calment on her 121st birthday on 21 February 1996. She would go on to live one more year, dying in 1997 at age 122 years, 164 days and is the oldest person ever.2yr ⋅ cjfullinfaw07 ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
London police help pedestrians safely walk around an unexploded 1,130-kg bomb, 19412yr ⋅ cjfullinfaw07 ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
With an area of 2.02 square kilometres, Monaco is the smallest country with a coastline.3yr ⋅ cjfullinfaw07 ⋅ r/MapPorn
Los Algodones, Mexico is unique in that if you travel due north, east, south or west from there, you will reach the United States4yr ⋅ cjfullinfaw07 ⋅ r/Borderporn
With an area of 52,070 sq km (20,105 sq mi), San Bernardino County is the largest county in the contiguous United States. It is closest in size to West Virginia.4yr ⋅ cjfullinfaw07 ⋅ r/geography
“It’s called freedom, it’s not exactly the safest play on the board. But it’s miles better than tyranny and oppression.”1yr ⋅ cjfullinfaw07 ⋅ r/ShitAmericansSay
The chamber of parliament of the tiny republic of San Marino2yr ⋅ cjfullinfaw07 ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
During WWII, Ireland was neutral so they wrote the name of the country in Irish (Eire) on their northern shore to alert Allied aircraft of their neutrality2yr ⋅ cjfullinfaw07 ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
At 8,641 km long, E40 is the longest E-series highway; it spans 10 countries and six time zones.3yr ⋅ cjfullinfaw07 ⋅ r/MapPorn
In addition to being the southernmost city in Canada, Windsor, Ontario is also the only city in the country that requires one to travel north into the United States, being located directly south of Detroit, Michigan.4yr ⋅ cjfullinfaw07 ⋅ r/geography
One of my local McDonald’s lets you see what goes into their different cafe drinks.3yr ⋅ cjfullinfaw07 ⋅ r/coolguides
A purported photograph of the iceberg that sank the Titanic 110 years ago tonight2yr ⋅ cjfullinfaw07 ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
My new, local liquor store used to be a Toys R Us and they kept the entrance sign.3yr ⋅ cjfullinfaw07 ⋅ r/mildlyinteresting
Took this picture at eye level. I’m 164 cm tall and am about equal with the hood of the truck2yr ⋅ cjfullinfaw07 ⋅ r/fuckcars
From 1977 to 1983, UK’s George Meegan walked from South America to North America, travelling 30,608 km and wearing out 12.5 pairs of hiking boots2yr ⋅ cjfullinfaw07 ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
I was bored during homework so I decided to draw Canada minus the Arctic Archipelago (bonus map of Colorado above it)3yr ⋅ cjfullinfaw07 ⋅ r/MapPorn
Looking out over Vancouver last summer. See that mountain in the distance? That’s Mt. Baker, some 120 km away in Washington state.4yr ⋅ cjfullinfaw07 ⋅ r/geography
Qikiqtaaluk (Baffin) Region is Nunavut’s easternmost, northernmost and southernmost administrative region. It’s also the largest (989,879 km2) and most populous (18,988 people) region.2yr ⋅ cjfullinfaw07 ⋅ r/MapPorn
Colombian independence was won after a battle at this bridge in Tunja2yr ⋅ cjfullinfaw07 ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
New Zealand was the last major landmass on Earth to be settled by humans, with the Maori only reaching its shores around 1200 CE5mo ⋅ cjfullinfaw07 ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
We still remember the Alamo; We’re still a bit miffed. We do NOT want to be bffs.9mo ⋅ cjfullinfaw07 ⋅ r/ShitAmericansSay
Seems to me that you metric peasants are the only ones complaining :)1yr ⋅ cjfullinfaw07 ⋅ r/ShitAmericansSay
My city spelled “circle” incorrectly on this street sign and almost no one has noticed2yr ⋅ cjfullinfaw07 ⋅ r/mildlyinfuriating
The only recorded snowfall in Death Valley occurred on 29 January 1922, when 1.3 cm fell2yr ⋅ cjfullinfaw07 ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
Topographic map of California, in which both the highest and lowest points in the Lower 48 States are located5yr ⋅ cjfullinfaw07 ⋅ r/MapPorn
Map of the United States by state highway marker (Source: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/97882991873752815/)5yr ⋅ cjfullinfaw07 ⋅ r/MapPorn
I have no idea what ‘phez 4ev’ is supposed to mean? Pheasant forever? lol2mo ⋅ cjfullinfaw07 ⋅ r/LICENSEPLATES
