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Interesting Facts - Page 182
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In 1986, the Rutan Voyager became the first plane to fly around the world without stopping or refueling. The trip took 9 days and still holds the record for the longest crewed flight without refueling.
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In 1958–59, two men kept a Cessna 172 airplane aloft for 64 days. Twice a day they would descend to 20 feet to refuel from a ground-based truck.
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"Flip This House" and "Flip That House" both premiered on different cable TV networks within 10 days of each other in July 2005.
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In 1631, the royal printers in London missed a word when they were printing the Bible. As as result, one of the Ten Commandments reads "thou shalt commit adultery". Most copies of this edition were immediately destroyed, but 15 survive to this day and are quite valuable. It is known as the "Wicked Bible".
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The Bayer company, inventors of Aspirin, might be the most scandal-plagued company of all time. During the Holocaust, they provided the Nazi government with Zyklon B for use in the gas chambers. In the 1980s, they sold AIDS tainted blood. Later, they were responsible for the deaths of 24 children in Peru who consumed pesticide which resembled powdered milk. In 2018, Bayer acquired Monsanto.
Aabenraa is the first city alphabetically that does not include a space or special character, whilst Zyznow is the last alphabetically (Zzyzx doesn't count because it doesn't mean anything)
Azerbaijan has 4 exclaves, not 1
Only three places in the world have three consecutive letters: Nuuuli, Faaa, and Kaaawa; all of which are in oceania. (this one is likely wrong)
There are 261 cities in India named Fatehpur
There is a community called DISH in texas. yes all caps
Ysbyty Ystwyth and Bwlchgwyn have no fixed english vowels
13 cities have only vowels; Aioi, Eiao, Aiea, Oia, Oia, Aia, Ea, Ae, Aa, Oo, Ii, Eu, and U
A, E, F, I, L, M, N, O, R, and Z are the only letters that have a city name start with two consecutive letters
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/60/Liechtenstein_-_Gemeinden_mit_Exklaven.png)
Oía Greece (3,376)
Oia Piemonte, Italy (157)
While researching this I also found Aabajijiwani-ziibiinsing, a river in Wisconsin.
So legislatures have to waste everyone's time to make a big symbolic show that they are anti-slavery.
Why don't they pass a resolution saying "Satan is bad" while they're at it.
2. England is more populous than the Pacific ocean, despite the latter being over 1000 times larger!
3. Switzerland, despite being divided into cantons, speaks no Cantonese.
4. Even though it's the most spoken language in the world, no country in Europe has Chinese as an official language.
5. Indonesia is so big, it could fit every one of the ancient wonders of the world entirely within it.
6. Texas has an area of 696.24K km²
7. The earth’s north and south poles actually very close to each other, much closer than either pole is to the Andromeda galaxy.
8. If you’re currently living in the US, there's a pretty good chance that the closest path to the north pole is through Canada.
Also the language is the only Semitic-based language that uses the Latin script.
Jokingly, the medic sent someone to retrieve the Game Boy to be repaired. When it was brought for repair, the console still worked and could play Tetris.
So yeah, 4chan can call airstrikes.
New York City and Bogota almost have the same longitude.
The moon landing (1969) is closer in time to 1916 than today (2023).
The oldest person alive (Maria Branyas as of 2023) was ten years old when John F. Kennedy was born.
The last known surviving widow of a U.S. Civil War veteran died just in 2020. Her name is Helen Viola Jackson, born 1919. When she was 17, she married 93-year-old Union veteran James Bolin. After Bolin died several years later, the widow decided it was best to keep the marriage secret, all the way up until 2017 when she broke the secret to everyone. She died a few years later in 2020, a whole 155 years after the US Civil War ended.
I just love facts that mess with my perception of time!
For the curious, her pension was $73.13 a month.
The last person executed by guillotine was executed after the first Star Wars movie
Francoist Spain existed when Microsoft was founded
The Fax machine was patented only five days after the major oregon trail journey
The famous painting "starry night" was painted after the founding of nintendo
When Kublai Khan existed, nobody had heard of New Zealand
Venice, Ragusa, Holy Roman Empire, and the Habsburgs existed as countries when the US was founded
Mauritania abolished slavery after the iPod
The last slave died after disney world opened
Picasso died in the same year as Pink Floyd's Dark side of the moon
McDonalds was founded before Auschwitz
Coca-Cola is only five years older than the entire country of Italy
John Quincy Adams knew both Washington and Lincoln
Mozart's career peaked when the US was fighting for independence
The Chicago Cubs won the world series when the Ottoman empire existed
Source: A quiz on this website
source: my own research
source: me
A is taken because X "A" lapa is a ccity
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford
Western Australians held a referendum to secede from the Commonwealth of Australia and majority voted to secede; however, due to a new British law, it was up to Australia to decide. The answer to the secession would obviously be no due to the natural resources that WA held. You probably knew this though.
There are 2-4 countries (I can't remember) without any people of Indian origin. Vatican City due to its low population, Pakistan, and possibly Tuvalu & San Marino.