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Interesting Facts - Page 14
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The Hughes H-4 Hercules, nicknamed the Spruce Goose, is the largest aircraft ever to fly. Due to wartime restrictions on the use of metal, it was made of wood. But despite its name, it was made mostly of birch, not spruce.
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The U.S. Secret Service uses code names to refer to members of the Presidential family. Such code-names have included "Rawhide", for Ronald Reagan, "Lancer" for John F. Kennedy, and "Renegade" for Barack Obama.
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The Bristlecone Pine tree, native to the western United States, has the longest life span of any known organism - over 5,000 years.
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The places in the original version of the board game "Monopoly" were inspired by Atlantic City, New Jersey.
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The Jean-Claude Van Damme movie "Bloodsport" claims to be based on a true story about a deadly martial arts tournament called the "Kumite". In reality, it was completely made up.
35 Comments
Gamer1162
+1
Level 59
Apr 21, 2018
Wonder what Trump's code name is...
Quizmaster
+5
Level ∞
Apr 22, 2018
Muse
Gamer1162
+7
Level 59
Apr 22, 2018
Mogul, according to the source. Still find Muse funny. Also, Tim Kaine "Daredevil"?
Insaniot
+7
Level 63
Apr 24, 2018
Well, technically that’s still Trump’s code name, just not DONALD Trump.
McKenzieFam
+1
Level 68
Aug 3, 2021
Sorry QM, it's Mogul.
Neodymium
+1
Level 63
Oct 1, 2024
Muse is Melania's
Magarara
+8
Level 53
Jun 14, 2018
Tantrum Tyrant
PHG1960
+2
Level 69
Mar 29, 2023
That was Hillary Clinton's code name
jesuschristina
+25
Level 57
Feb 17, 2019
Agent Orange
TheSavageGeographer
+6
Level 45
Oct 7, 2019
Richard Nixon as Searchlight, OOF
morcaca
+5
Level 59
Oct 27, 2020
Well that nickname didn't age well
NV1
+1
Level 55
Jan 19, 2021
Joe Biden's Celtic
roleybob
+1
Level 73
Jun 7, 2018
Fargo is the same as Bloodsport - claims to be based o a true story but that's total rubbish
IsleAuHaulte
+1
Level 92
Mar 17, 2019
The body count in the TV series is phenomenal for small states, ain't it?
Malbaby
+6
Level 70
Jun 22, 2020
In the British detective TV series 'Midsomer Murders' the village of Midsomer has had 222 murders, 11 suicides, 11 accidental deaths and 7 deaths by natural causes ....... BEAT THAT FARGO!
PHG1960
+2
Level 69
Mar 29, 2023
Midsommer Murders has depopulated that county. They should have moved to a different county. I'm skeptical there were that few murders on that series.
kalbahamut
+5
Level 79
Aug 23, 2018
In order for Frank Dux's claims about the "Kumite" to be accurate, based on his claimed record of 56 consecutive knock outs in one single-elimination tournament, there would have had to have been 72 quadrillion fighters competing in the tournament at the same time (start with 2 finalists and then double it 56 times). More than 10 million times the current population of planet Earth! And supposedly this all took place on the tiny island nation of the Bahamas. Can you just imagine how hard it was to find a working toilet?? Truly the man is a hero.
YellowJacket
+4
Level 80
Nov 23, 2019
I think parking would have been more of an issue. You don't have to find a toilet if you can't park your car and get into the facility.
Malbaby
+1
Level 70
Sep 3, 2021
No room for cars, in fact several million people would have to stand on each others shoulders covering the whole land area.
kalbahamut
+2
Level 79
Nov 28, 2022
They left out the carpooling subplot in the film adaptation.
cornflakesfu
+8
Level 89
Sep 9, 2018
Edith Wilson's code name was "Grandma." Ouch.
Revolution
+1
Level 25
Nov 6, 2018
Just what I was thinking!
tom88
+7
Level 77
Jan 7, 2019
curious about the longest lifespan one. There are some jellyfish and some other deep sea organisms that can technically live forever, although I'm sure most of them get eaten by something else long before they reach 5000 years old, so maybe that doesn't count.
Malbaby
+1
Level 70
Dec 14, 2020
If an amoeba splits in two, they are both actually the original amoeba. They each then grow and split in two to form two amoebas that really are the original amoeba. So an amoeba today is actually the original amoeba from millions of years ago ...... right?
Findlay
+2
Level 80
Dec 11, 2022
Turritopsis dohrnii is a biologically immortal jellyfish. But, like you say, I'd be kinda amazed if one had ever actually made it to anything approaching 5000 years. Also, it's not clear that Bristlecones or any number of other trees experience senescence - ageing, in lay terms - so they arguably match Turritopsis' biological immortality claim, whilst also living longer on average. That said, even then it isn't clear the Bristlecone takes the win. Many clonal colonies (arguably not one tree, but fair to say a single organism) are tens of thousands of years old, possibly up to or exceeding 1 million years. Some Wollemi pines in Australia have been cloning themselves for 60 million years.
luke1
+4
Level 43
Oct 24, 2019
monopoly is quite the nice game.
gewehr6628
+3
Level 47
May 11, 2021
very nice indeed
Neodymium
+1
Level 63
Apr 26, 2023
very much quite nice
FranckMee
+4
Level 68
Dec 16, 2020
Update : the H-4 is NOT the largest aircraft ever to fly anymore. It's been superseded by the Stratolaunch on April 13th 2019.
idontlikeit
+1
Level 43
Jan 14, 2021
What if a president does not like that code name?
tervuren
+2
Level 59
Mar 14, 2021
How about the Hindenburg?
PHG1960
+1
Level 69
Mar 29, 2023
#68. The current thinking is that there are quaking aspen trees that are older than 80,000 years. These are genetically identical plants that seem to be individual trees but are connected by shared root systems.
quantum12354
+1
Level 55
Jun 4, 2024
Damn, I never knew that about Bloodsport, still one of my favourite movies though.
OohAngelo
+1
Level 49
May 26, 2025
What is Reagan’s?
2763pp
+1
Level 21
Nov 3, 2025
anybody who watches P&F knows about the spruce goose
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