North Pole

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1. The magnetic North Pole is moving, and studies since 2005 suggest it is because of water loss from Eurasia, not the melting Greenland ice caps.

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2. The North Pole is moving because the big molten core of iron in the middle of the Earth is sloshing around, and it has suddenly started speeding up.

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3. Over 30 years the North Pole's rate of movement has sped up from 15 kilometres a year to 55 kilometres a year, and nobody knows why.

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4. Russia planted a flag at the geographic North Pole on the bottom of the ocean, because the pole is disputed between Canada, Denmark and Russia.

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5. The magnetic North Pole is currently still in Canadian territory but is moving up towards Siberia.

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6. The magnetic South Pole is not the exact opposite of the magnetic North Pole, and it is not moving nearly as much.

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7. If you tried to fly to the North Pole using your phone without the magnetic-model update, you would end up 25 miles away from it.

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8. Wally Herbert set out to prove Peary never reached the North Pole, and in the process of recreating the trip he became the first person actually to do it.

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9. The North Pole Marathon is called the coolest marathon in the world, and it has polar bear guards stationed all along the route.

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10. The first North Pole Marathon happened in 2002 with a single participant who was also the organiser, and the entire course floats on 14,000 feet of Arctic Ocean.

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11. Symmes campaigned to launch an expedition to the North Pole so he could enter the hollow Earth, and Congress actually voted on funding it.

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12. A Victorian historian, the first president of Boston University, claimed the Garden of Eden was at the North Pole and published a 500-page book insisting on it.

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13. In North Pole, Alaska, a politician legally changed his name to Santa Claus in 2005; he is an Anglican monk, and the town of about 2,500 was also once home to Bob Ross.

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14. The mayor of North Pole, Alaska, is a man called Larry Turch, and the Santa Claus who lives there is a council member of the North Pole government.

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15. On 23rd May 1995 the first Poles to reach the geographic North Pole were Marek Kaminski and Wojciech Moskal, so they were the two Poles at the North Pole.

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16. MOSAiC, the largest Arctic expedition ever, deliberately embedded a ship in the ice with hundreds of researchers from 19 countries.

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17. A polar party kept noticing more and more fresh tracks joining them, until someone said, you arsehole Ollendorf, these are our own bloody footprints.

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18. At any one time there must be a Polish person who is northernmost on planet Earth, and so they would be the North Pole.

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