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TIL that skateboarding was banned in Norway from 1977 to 1989

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l7n41 TIL we don't know where Point Nemo is. The coordinates of the most remote spot in the ocean have only been calculated using published coastline datasets. No one has ever taken GPS readings at the three closest land points to Point Nemo which is what it would take to calculate it precisely.
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