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The Isthmus of Panama curves eastward as it runs south, so the canal, which crosses it from northwest to southeast, ends at the Pacific about 40 km east of where it starts.
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Yes. Reno sits at about 119.85° West and Los Angeles at about 118.41° West, so Reno is farther west by roughly 1.4 degrees of longitude.
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The Aleutian Islands cross the 180th meridian, so some Alaskan land lies at eastern longitude. By longitude Alaska holds both extremes; by map position Maine is easternmost.
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Earth bulges at the equator because it spins. Chimborazo sits almost on the equator, so its summit is about 2.1 km farther from the center than Everest's, though Everest is higher above sea level.
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Point Nemo is the ocean spot farthest from any land, about 2,688 km away. The astronaut claim is true only when the ISS is passing overhead, and it is less unusual than it sounds.
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A test thread with one claim that is true and one that is a well-known myth, to see what a fact-check does.
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