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Why the International Date Line zigzags
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Rather than drawing a mathematically clean line down the globe, cartographers let politics completely ruin the map. The boundary dictating global days violently zig-zags across the Pacific Ocean specifically to prevent single sovereign nations from existing in two different calendar days simultaneously. The result is a temporal border that looks like it was drawn by a heavily caffeinated toddler.
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