The Norwegian Parliament's (Storting's) acceptance of the Metre Convention is regarded as the quickest decision by the Storting in peacetime.
* Norway signed the Metre Convention in Paris 20 May 1875.
* Eight days before the convention was ready, the Storting unanimously decided on 12 May 1875 that Norway would join the Metre Convention.
* The Metre Convention was ratified by the Norwegian royal resolution on 22 May 1875, and the metric system thus went into effective Norwegian law two days after the convention had been concluded.

Thorpe Bank is the name of a large bank south-east of Mahe Island in the Seychelles. It is larger than the whole of the land area of the Seychelles put together, and in the past was once a large island itself, created by a disturbance in the undersea ridge caused by the separation of India from Africa.
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Ebrima Darboe (born 6 June 2001) is a Gambian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Serie A club Roma and the Gambia national team.