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We have better high-resolution maps of Mars than of our own seabed, though mapping projects are closing the gap.
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Oceans · Around the World
External reference (site language): Oceans Seven ↗
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The modern passport with a photo and standard booklet emerged from a 1920 League of Nations conference.
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World · Around the World
External reference (site language): World (disambiguation) ↗
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Before railways every town kept its own solar time. Standard time zones were adopted to make timetables possible.
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World · Around the World
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The international date line bends around island groups so countries are not split across two calendar days.
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Pacific · Around the World
External reference (site language): Pacific Ocean ↗
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The body finds it easier to lengthen a day than shorten one, so westward flights usually feel gentler.
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World · Around the World
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The small bleed hole in a cabin window equalises pressure so the outer pane bears the load.
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World · Around the World
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Relative humidity on a long-haul flight often drops below 20 percent, which is why you feel thirsty.
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World · Around the World
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There is a hierarchy: carpet beats tile, chairs without armrests beat carpet, and a bench near a plug beats everything. This knowledge is earned.
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World · Around the World
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Low pressure and dry air dull sweet and salty perception, so airline meals are seasoned more heavily.
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World · Around the World
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My phone died in a city where I could not read the alphabet. A teenager at a bus stop looked up my hotel, wrote the address in her language, and walked me to the right stop.
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World · Around the World
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Flight recorders are painted bright orange with reflective tape so search teams can spot them.
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World · Around the World
External reference (site language): World (disambiguation) ↗
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Chicago O'Hare uses ORD from its old name Orchard Field, long after the orchard disappeared.
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World · Around the World
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The consulate staff had clearly done this a thousand times. She asked three questions, made two calls, and told me it would be four days and to go and enjoy the city.
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World · Around the World
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The hop between Westray and Papa Westray takes about a minute and a half in fair wind.
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Orkney, Scotland · Around the World
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Ultra-long-haul routes such as Singapore to New York run close to 19 hours nonstop.
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World · Around the World
External reference (site language): World's longest domestic flight ↗
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Three days without luggage taught me that I had packed twice as much as I needed and that laundries exist in every country on Earth.
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World · Around the World
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Contrails form when hot humid exhaust meets cold air and freezes, which is why they appear only at altitude.
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World · Around the World
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Wings are tested to flex far beyond anything turbulence produces. The discomfort is real, the danger mostly is not.
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World · Around the World
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We missed by eleven minutes and were rebooked for the next morning. The forced overnight became the best city we visited that year, and we had never planned to go.
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World · Around the World
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The first duty-free shop opened at Shannon Airport in 1947 to serve transatlantic refuelling stops.
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Shannon, Ireland · Around the World
External reference (site language): Shannon Airport ↗
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Four strangers at an airport at one in the morning splitting a fare into town. Two of them are still in a group chat with me eight years later.
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World · Around the World
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Wheeled luggage was only patented in 1970, and the upright rolling case with a long handle arrived in 1987.
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World · Around the World
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Magnetic stripe keycards were introduced to solve the expensive problem of guests walking off with metal keys.
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World · Around the World
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A ball, a wall and six children. Nobody needed to explain the rules and nobody kept score properly.
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World · Around the World
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The missed ferry. The stranger who handed over a key. The meal that ran until midnight. If something happened to you on the road and you still think about it, send it - a few sentences is plenty, and we do the tidying up.
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