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What's a fact that sounds totally made up, yet is completely true? (kbin.social)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'll start: The Red Hot Chili Peppers are 3 years older than Guns N' Roses.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Alaska is the north-most US state, and it goes so far west that it actually pokes into the eastern hemisphere.

Here’s a map for the Canada one.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Ha! And here's me trying to picture how Maine can be called the West-most state!

[–] Modern_medicine_isnt 3 points 11 months ago

Whoever wrote up that canada one doesn't understand the word "entirely"