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TIL the line where tourists take photos at the Royal Observatory Greenwich marks the historic Prime Meridian. Since 1988 the current standard prime meridian is 102.5m off the original line, hence if you look at your GPS on your phone at the historic line it won't show exactly zero degrees longitude

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