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Latitude is supposed to control climate. You learn this early. Move north, temperatures drop. Seems logical enough until you actually compare cities across the North Atlantic.

Take Happy Valley-Goose Bay in Newfoundlan...


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These letters didn’t start in England. They came from Italy. Greeks were using something similar before that. Phoenician traders had their own version before the Greeks. Your alphabet has a family tree.

Germans borrowed Latin letters. Poles and Czech...


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Most Americans have watched housing prices climb over the past few decades. The geography of where homes cost the most has shifted pretty dramatically too.

Massachusetts topped the list in 2000. Homes there averaged $192,616. Hawaii was next ...


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What would America look like if the Romans had named it?

Someone actually did this. They translated all 50 state names into Lat...


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Christianity began in the Middle East around 30 CE, in what is now Israel and Palestine. Two thousand years later, 2.5 billion Christians are living on every continent.


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