• ch00f@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3 years

    The closest planet to Earth is Mercury.

    On average that is. Mercury is actually the closest planet to every other planet in average. Because when it’s on the other side of the Sun, it’s still pretty close.

  • Huffkin@feddit.ukEnglish
    3 years

    Oxford University is older than the Aztec empire.

    Oxford University founded in 1326, Aztec empire ~1428-1521

    • tristophe@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3 years

      Don’t mean to pick, but Oxford was founded in 1096 and Cambridge in 1209.

      I worked for cambridge in 2009 and got a nice little 800 year badge

    • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
      3 years

      And some of the colleges of Oxford University are older than the university. Merton College was founded in 1264.

  • breadsmasher@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3 years

    The country claiming to have the most “freedom” of any country has the highest incarceration rate of any country.