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Interesting Facts - Page 201
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The fastest vehicle of the 19th century was the ice yacht, a sailing ship with metal runners for traveling on ice. In 1885, an ice yacht set a speed record of 172 km/h.
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Over a four year period, J.S. Bach composed and directed an original 30 minute musical piece nearly every week. This was in addition to his duties as choirmaster, music teacher, and father of (at the time) 8 children. So what's your problem?
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The composer J.S. Bach had 20 children, although only 9 survived to adulthood.
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Pablo Picasso's full name on his birth certificate was Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz Picasso.
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Don't tell this to an Italian, but a lot of "traditional" Italian food is more recent than you might think. Carbonara was created during WWII thanks to plentiful imports of bacon from the United States. Tiramisu is from the 1960s. Ciabatta bread was created in 1982.
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The IF group will fall on that like a pack of ravenous jaguars
so cartagena, colombia technically is a new-new-new city.
knew that tho
so ice-boating IS real!
The King of Cambodia is the only monarch that can speak Czech -Xtrodinary
When the North Pole was first reached by airship in 1926, nobody landed, they just dropped Japanese, American, and French flags down onto the ice. People got angry at the Frenchman because he made sure his flag was bigger than the other two -McKenzieFam
Prince Philip II was only 16-years-old when the Philippine Archipelago was named after him. -HollowYT
Tajikistan has banned having birthday parties in public. -Xtrodinary
When Japan colonized the Philippines, its currency was renamed to "Mickey Mouse money". -HollowYT
Dressing up as Santa Claus can give you 5 years in jail in Brunei. -Xtrodinary
The American Legation in Tangiers is the only place outside of the US to be registered as a US Historical Landmark. The building, which is now a museum, was originally a gift from the Sultan of Morocco in 1821 -McKenzieFam
And for the Baseball page:
A Diamondbacks fan won tickets to a game. Before she went, she was given an offer by a company that she would win 1 million dollars if she could pick the correct player and inning to hit a grand slam. She chose the 6th inning and Jay Bell. Eventually, in the sixth inning, the person who came up to bat was Jay Bell. Bell knew that he could win the fan a million dollars, hit a grand slam, and the woman and her family won the money. -CambodianQuizzer
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