Concerned about your weight? Don’t go to the North Pole, where you’re about 20 km closer to the center of Earth–and therefore a pound or so heavier–than at the equator. Head, instead, for India. There, you’d be standing over a less-dense landscape with a gentler gravitational pull. Yes, what you weigh depends on where you are.
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