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TIL Colorado isn’t a rectangle and actually has 697 sides, mostly due to poor measurement tools

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TIL Colorado isn’t a rectangle and actually has 697 sides, mostly due to poor measurement tools

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Today I Learned (TIL)@lemmy.ca · 5 months ago

Colorado Is Not a Rectangle—It Has 697 Sides - Atlas Obscura

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America loves its straight-line borders. The only U.S. state without one is Hawaii—for obvious reasons.

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many boundary lines “in law” follow longitude/latitude great circles

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