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2 unusual facts about Mason Dixon


Mason Dixon

Mason & Dixon, the 1997 novel by Thomas Pynchon featuring the surveyors as characters

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Mason–Dixon line separating Delaware and Pennsylvania from Maryland, surveyed 1763–1767


Rocky Balboa

After going two rounds with Balboa, Ivan Drago told his trainer (in Russian), "He's not human, he's like a piece of iron." Mason Dixon once remarked about Balboa, "...that guy's got bricks in his gloves".


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2004–05 ECHL season

The league also adopted a "Mason-Dixon" format, as the conferences were split on the Mason-Dixon line, with the National Conference teams being north of the famed line, and American Conference teams south of the line—in effect, all teams in states of the Confederacy, creating a "North vs South" format.

Oakridge, Gloucestershire

Charles Mason, one of the surveyors of America's Mason-Dixon Line, (the other being Jeremiah Dixon), came from here.