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Interesting Facts - Page 215
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Chainsaws were originally invented as a surgical instrument.
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If Anchorage, Alaska had the same population density as Macau, it would have a population of 95 million.
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Helicopter is derived from the Greek words for "spiral" and "wing". Pterodactyl is "wing" + "finger".
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Tristan da Cunha is a remote island group in the South Atlantic Ocean that is owned by Great Britain. It's so remote that, from 1909 to 1919, it was completely cut off from the outside world. Eventually, the HMS Yarmouth visited the islands to tell them how WWI ended (which they never knew had even happened).
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It's basically impossible to exceed the 70 pound weight limit on a small flax rate box from the U.S. postal service. Even if you filled the box with Osmium, the densest material on planet Earth, it would only weigh 61.5 pounds.
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Credit @GreenYoshi88 for #1073.
Credit @Xtrordinary for #1074.
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Lake Superior's water would cover all of North and South America in 30 inches
You don't need a drivers license to be a NASCAR driver
There is a typo on Liberty Bell
Kentucky has more bourbon barrels than people
Americans eat 100 acres of pizza every day.
Mt. Thor on Baffin Island, Canada, has Earth’s greatest sheer vertical drop (4,101 feet).
California does NOT have more people than Canada
The twin birth rate in the United States rose 76% per 1000 births from 1980 to 2009. This is an increase of 18.8 twins to 33.3 twins. It was supposedly caused largely by demographic shifts. -Xtrordinary
Anthony Hopkins only had 24:52 minutes or 21% of screen time in Silence of the Lambs, which is one of the shortest times and the shortest percentage of time on screen to win an Academy Award for Best Actor. -TigerPl
A city in the Philippines installed underwater statues of Jesus and the Virgin Mary in order to stop dynamite fishing that was destroying a double barrier reef. This was successful as Catholic fishermen didn't want to harm the statues and the dynamite fishing stopped. -thread
Girls born in December are 70% more likely to be diagnosed with ADHD than ones born in January. -Xtrordinary
Kearney, Nebraska was originally spelled as "Kearny." A post office kept misspelling it as "Kearney" and eventually was the official name for it. -UnrequitedLove
The SMS Cap Trafalgar was a German ocean liner. During World War I, it was converted into a ship in the German Navy. The Germans made it look like a British ship under the false name HMS Carmania in order to infiltrate and disrupt British convoys. The first ship the "Carmania" faced was the real HMS Carmania, and the imposter ship was promptly sunk by the original. -CambodianQuizzer
After Pearl Harbor, Poland declared war on Japan. However, Japan basically just ignored them and their declaration of war. Poland never sent troops to fight in Japan, and after the war it was like nothing had happened between the two countries… because it technically hadn’t. -In2restingFacts
One of the four flu viruses usually vaccinated against, influenza B Yamagata, may have completely disappeared. Before 2020, it peaked each flu season. However, no confirmed cases have been reported worldwide in the last five years, likely because of COVID-19 precautions. -Neodymium
On April Fool's Day in 1974, a retired veteran named Oliver Bickar pulled off one of the most elaborate pranks in history. Bickar and friends hauled 70 kerosene-soaked tyres to the summit of Mt Edgecumbe in Alaska and lit them on fire, causing an enormous plume of black smoke to rise from the inactive volcano. Residents of the town panicked, believing the mountain to be erupting. The Coast Guard sent a helicopter to check out the mountain, where they found a large message "APRIL FOOLS" painted in the snow -PontiacLover
In 1950, a fan was killed during a game at a stadium in New York. Apparently, he was killed when a 14-year-old played with a pistol about 1,000 feet away. The teen shot some bullets in the air as a celebration (It was on the 4th of July), and one of those bullets managed to travel enough feet to hit and kill the fan. -CambodianQuizzer
dont think the "had" is needed? idk