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TIL that no place in the continental US has an antipodal point on land. Dig a hole straight through to the other side of the Earth and you will come up in the Southern Indian Ocean. Only the very northern tip of Alaska and the state of Hawaii do; dig from Honolulu and you will surface in Botswana.

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