Canada & The United States (Bizarre Borders Part 2)
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Canada and the United States share the longest, straightest, possibly boringest border inthe world. But, look closer, and there's plenty of bizarreness to be found.While these sister nations get along fairly well, they both want to make it really clearwhose side of the continent is whose. And they've done this by carving a 20-foot widespace along the border. All five and a half thousand miles of it.With the exception of the rare New England town that predates national borders or theodd airport that needed extending, this space is the no-touching-zone between the countriesand they're super serious about keeping it clear. It matters not if the no-touching-zoneruns through hundreds of miles of virtually uninhabited Alaskan / Yukon wilderness. Thos...
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Canada and the United States share the longest, straightest, possibly boringest border inthe world. But, look closer, and there's plenty of bizarreness to be found.While these sister nations get along fairly well, they both want to make it really clearwhose side of the continent is whose. And they've done this by carving a 20-foot widespace along the border. All five and a half thousand miles of it.With the exception of the rare New England town that predates national borders or theodd airport that needed extending, this space is the no-touching-zone between the countriesand they're super serious about keeping it clear. It matters not if the no-touching-zoneruns through hundreds of miles of virtually uninhabited Alaskan / Yukon wilderness. Thos...
