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The cemetery town of Colma has more dead than alive.  

Located in the suburbs of San Francisco, the city of Colma is nicknamed "City of the Dead", "City of Souls" or "City of the Silent".  

With chilling names like these, some explanation is in order, isn't it?

At the end of the 19th century, the gold rush rapidly increased the number of inhabitants of San Francisco and the population greatly feared the spread of contagious diseases, such as cholera.  

The city's board of supervisors, concerned about lack of space and public health, voted to ban burials within city limits in the early 1900s.

Ten years later, the decision to exhume the corpses and transport them elsewhere was taken.

Therefore, the small municipality of Colma was officially created in 1924 to serve as a necropolis.

Today, there are 17 cemeteries in the small town where the number of buried bodies is a thousand times higher than the number of inhabitants.  

No wonder the city's slogan is "It's great to be alive in Colma"!

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Indian Summer

When it appeared in the United States, probably at the end of the 18th century, it referred to a peculiarity of the continental climate of North America.

This peculiarity occurs in Canada and the United States, between the beginning of October and mid-November.

The Indian summer corresponds to a period of surprisingly mild weather for the season and which arrives after an initial period of frost.

If the nights remain cool and the mornings misty, the daytime weather is then mild, sunny and dry.

Temperatures are at least 5°C higher than normal for the season and can exceed, sometimes briskly, 25°C.

The Indian summer can last between 3 and 8 days.

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Lestotho: snow from May to August

A high altitude country, Lesotho is one of the few countries in Africa to see snowfall in winter.

When temperatures approach 0°C, the mountains are then covered with an immense white mantle.

An amazing sight to observe from May to August (the seasons are reversed).

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Iceland: no trains

Are you going to Iceland soon and want to travel from city to city?

Remember to book a car on site because it is the only country in Europe that does not have a railway! 

The island's seismic activity does not provide passengers with optimal safety conditions for traveling by train.

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 India: areas without selfies.

After dozens of selfie-related deaths, India has introduced "no selfie zones" in which it is forbidden to take a picture.

These risky places are often close to cliffs or railway tracks.

Failure to comply with this rule will result in a fine of 1200 rupees.

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Armenia, the importance of chess games

 Country of chess par excellence, Armenia has made this discipline a subject in its own right at school. 

Since 2011, primary school students have 4 hours of compulsory chess lessons per week.

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