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Sweden’s Scale Model of the Solar System Spans the Whole Country

By Commonplace Fun Facts on November 10, 2021 • ( 1 Comment )

As young students, we all got our first introduction to the solar system through pictures that showed the planets orbiting the sun. Those pictures frequently showed equal distance between the planets and […]

Slow and Steady Completes the Race

By Commonplace Fun Facts on November 25, 2014 • ( Leave a comment )

Shizo Kanakuri, a Japanese marathoner at the 1912 Olympics in Sweden, quit the race part way through and went home without telling race officials. In 1966 he was invited to compete the […]