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Why Don’t We All Drive on the Same Side of the Road?
Yesterday, the residents of Samoa began driving on the right side of the road instead of the left. This is the first major switch since the 1970s, when Ghana, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone made the change....
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How Do Countries Choose Which Side They Drive On?
Chaos has descended this week on the tiny Pacific island of Samoa after government officials decided to force the entire nation to switch sides of the road on Monday. While Samoan officials insist...
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Your Guide to Girl Scout Cookies
This original infographic at Buzzfeed explains why my kids sold Girl Scout cookies for years and never encountered a Tagalong or Samoa, yet people on the internet still claim those are their...
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There Will Be No Friday This Week In Samoa
Friday has been canceled in Samoa. The South Pacific nation is switching to a different time zone, which will put them on the other side of the International Date Line. People in Samoa (population...
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The Weird World of Country-Specific Web Domains
As the dot-com bubble reached its peak in 2000, Internet entrepreneurs faced a problem: every word in the dictionary had been registered as a dot-com domain name. So their bold new innovation was to...
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How Did the Chicken Cross the Ocean?
At some point in the last few thousand years, someone in India or Southeast Asia decided to try catching one of the wild fowl than ran through the jungles and roosted up in the trees. We don’t know...
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Girl Scout Cookie Brownies
Having a hard time waiting for Girl Scout Cookies to come back out again? Well, this guide to mixing them with brownies won’t help, but it sure will be worth bookmarking when they go on sale again...
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