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Discover the Oddities of the US-Canada Border
There's an American town you can't reach by car without exiting the country. Children there cross an international border four times daily just for school. The U.S. Army once built a fort to defend against Canada—accidentally constructing it on Canadian soil. In 1969, engineers even turned off part of Niagara Falls.
The line between the United States and Canada appears straightforward on a map, but on the ground, it’s a peculiar 5,525-mile stretch. This includes errors in calculations, stubborn treaties, winding survey lines, smuggling tunnels, explosive ice, a library bisected by the border…
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