Via What-If xkcd: When (if ever) did the Sun finally set on the British Empire? —Kurt Amundson It hasn’t. Yet. But only because of a few dozen people living in an area smaller than Disney World. The world’s largest empire The British Empire spanned the globe. This led to the saying that the Sun never set on it, since it was always daytime somewhere in the Empire. It’s hard to figure out exactly when this long daylight began. The whole process of claiming a colony (on land already occupied by other people) is awfully arbitrary in the first place. Essentially, the British built their empire by sailing around and sticking flags on random beaches.[1] This makes it hard to decide when
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