In areas of mountainous terrain and wildnerness, the border between the United States and Canada is kept clear of brush and vegetation to a width of 6 meters, forming a visible line between the nations that’s visible in satellite images.
The deforested segments total more than 2,000 kilometers.
(The fourth is due to Mick Tully, the fifth to David Armstrong.)
This cottage, at 112 Mercer Street in Princeton, New Jersey, has been home to three Nobel winners: Albert Einstein lived there from 1935 to 1955; physicist Frank Wilczek between 1989 and 2001; and economist Eric Maskin until 2012.
It resides on the National Register of Historic Places and has been designated a U.S. National Historic Landmark, but it bears no outward marker of its significance.
This is just pleasing somehow: The Japanese railway station with the shortest name is Tsu Station in Mie Prefecture.
The name is written with a single stroke.
Roald Dahl wrote the film adaptations for two of Ian Fleming’s novels, You Only Live Twice and Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang.
(Thanks, Ben and Fred.)
The “tails” sides of British coins less than £1 can be arranged to depict the Royal Shield from the monarch’s coat of arms.
The full Royal Shield appears on the £1 coin.
“Whoopee! Man, that may have been a small one for Neil, but that’s a long one for me!” — Pete Conrad, after becoming the third human to set foot on the moon
The highest recorded temperature on Mars (35° C) is higher than the highest temperature on record for Scotland (33.2° C).
(Thanks, Jay.)
The number of milliseconds in a day is
And there are 10! seconds in six weeks.
Dakar is closer to Toronto than to Mogadishu.
(Thanks, Johnny.)
