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What Is the Smallest Country in the World? Vatican City, Explained

Posted on August 17, 2026 by Jordan Walker

You can walk across the smallest country on Earth in about ten minutes, and you will not cross a border checkpoint to do it. Vatican City sits inside Rome, surrounded on almost every side by Italian streets, and it has been a sovereign state for less than a century. Below are the measurements, the countries […]

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The Facts Behind Theodore Barrett’s Viral White House Video

Posted on July 29, 2026 by Jordan Walker

Quick Summary – The clip is fake. Not edited, not taken out of context. It is staged from the first second. Theodore Barrett never worked at the White House, and the wife he mentions never existed. The Onion shot the whole thing back in 2008 with hired actors and a script. KEY POINTS The video […]

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