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What's weird about US/Canada? I thought it was pretty straightforward. Was this about the "Angle" on Lake of the Woods?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMkYlIA7mgw

The border is defined as a straight line, but was surveyed as a series of slightly wobbly series of lines. They put up thousands of stone pillars, cut out a strip of trees along the border, and it became official.

IIRC there's also some stuff about a disputed island

There's the exclave Point Roberts, Washington (http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0408/feature7/), which falls ever so slightly south of the 49th parallel.

I once visited Port Roberts just to see the border crossing. I drove in from the Canadian side, parked my car, and walked across the border into the U.S. without being challenged. No one asked for my passport. As far as I could tell, no one even noticed that I had crossed the border. But when I tried to walk back into Canada the Canadians gave me a pretty hard time and almost didn't let me back in. It was an interesting experience.

I've visited there too. Drove in both directions, seemed like not a big deal.

I heard that kids there go to school in Blaine, which means 4 international border crossings every day!

I do not know what is considered weird, but here are some interesting things about the US/Canada border:

https://youtu.be/SxhUsPBFPkU?t=1m46s (Geography Now! Canada - btw awesome channel for people who like geography)

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