Interesting Facts - Page 219

First comment, hooray! (Apart from Quizmaster, obviously.)

Hey, that’s another checkmark for my JetPunk life goals. For the record, the Great Hexagon is amazing. It’s not just a name… It’s a hexagon with sharp corners. Apparently scientists were absolutely shocked, but did manage to make a replica in a wind tunnel.

Another fact bc idk what else to do with my life 🥰:

Between the collapse of the Soviet Union and 2025, Ukraine has lost a quarter of its population. However, its capital, Kyiv, has gained over 440,000 residents in that time period.

Source: macrotrends.net

The last player playing on nintendo network( 3ds and wii u era ) played for 209 days after Nintendo shut down the servers. He goes by FishGuy6564

I just had to share it here as well: The New York Times made a prediction in an article titled "Flying Machines Which Do Not Fly" on October 9, 1903. This article incorrectly predicted it would take one to ten million years for humanity to develop an operating flying machine, when just 69 days later, December 17, 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright made history with the first successful flight of the airplane.

The Potato Paradox: If potatoes which are 99% water dry out so that they are now 98% water, they lose half their weight.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potato_paradox

I keep getting more, this is beautiful. Thank you Quizmaster!

How do you hyperlink something? Specifically this link: https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictatorship#.

In 1943, during WWII, Germany established a secret automatic weather station in northern Newfoundland. The station was only functional for a few days, but was not discovered until the year 1977. (Wikipedia)

1092: I've been avoiding ice cream because once I start I can rarely stop, and here I find out it's practically a health food.