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Sandy Island, a land mass no larger than Manhattan in the Pacific Ocean, was discovered by James Cook in 1876. When a team of Australian scientists went to survey the island in 2012, they found that there was no island at all! They believe that Cook might have spotted a mass of floating volcanic stone and gas.

The flag of Nepal is not a square or rectangle! Instead, the flag consists of two triangular shapes, often referred to as a pennon or pennant. It was made the flag of Nepal in 1962.

During Japan’s period of self-imposed isolation, it was illegal to travel beyond the borders of the country, upon pain of death. There was almost no contact with the outside world, except on a tiny island situated in the harbor of the city of Nagasaki. Its name was Deijima, and it was here that a small community of individual were allowed to trade on behalf of the Dutch colonial powers. Here, they taught practices of Western medicine, traded European goods and even kept concubines from the local population. Intrigued? Check out the spellbinding novel The Thousand Autumns of Jacbod De Zoet by David Mitchell to delve into this intriguing historical anomaly.