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Interesting Facts - Page 231
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The Vikings settled in Iceland and Greenland. They also settled in Vinland, possibly located in Newfoundland, Canada. But did you know that the sagas mention two other areas explored by the Vikings? The first one was Helluland (Stone Land), possibly Baffin Island. The second was Markland (Forest Land), possibly the Labrador coast of Canada.
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Canada's military has more generals than tanks.
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The word "mausoleum" gets its name from an ancient ruler named Mausolus. His tomb, the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
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Urban families in England used to go on "holiday" by visiting the countryside and being paid to pick hops, a practice which did not fully die out until the 1960s.
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Canada's Northwest Territories is currently the only jurisdiction in the world that issues a non-rectangular license plate. It's shaped like a polar bear.
Link for verification: https://www.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/nobel-peace-prize-nominees.html
By the way, can someone tell me how to embed a link in a single word? I don't know how to.
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Canada's Northwest Territories is currently the only jurisdiction in the world that issues a non-rectangular license plate. It's shaped like a polar bear. -DixonTiconderoga
Billy was a slave who was convicted for treason and sentenced to death for treason after the American Revolutionary War. However, he (unsuccessfully) argued that as a slave, he was not a citizen and therefore owned no allegiance and was pardoned. -Xtrordinary
It took around three months for the news of William Henry Harrison's death to get from Washington D.C. to Los Angeles. Harrison only served 31 days. -Pontiac
Alaska is the only U.S. state whose name can be typed with only one row of keys. -Capybarra
The Ancient Egyptians did archeology on the Ancient Egyptians. -Xtrordinary
Due to his ability to levitate, Saint Joseph of Cupertino is the patron saint of, among other things, aviation, pilots, and astronauts. -Neodymium
The first aerial view map was made in 1502 by none other than Leonardo da Vinci. He did it manually by using a compass and an odometer to measure distance and angle of every corner of every single building in the city. -Kuba43ful
There is a municipality in Quebec called "Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha!" This is the only town in the world with two exclamation points in its name. -SonyVondern
During WWII, the United States considered attaching incendiary bombs to bats and flying them over the Pacific to bomb Japan. -DixonTiconderoga
Five people tried to murder a man named Michael Malloy. They poisoned his alcohol in 4 different ways, fed him expired oysters, a sandwich made of shrapnel and expired sardines (among other things), ran him over twice by a taxi, none of which finished the job. They finally killed him by connecting a coal gas jet to his mouth, which gave him carbon monoxide poisoning. -Basaball
In the UK, leaving a party without saying goodbye is called a French Exit. In France, it's partir à l'anglaise, or English Exit. -DixonTiconderoga
"In England they drive on the left of the road. In Alaska we drive on what’s left of the road." --Alaskan colloquialism (In2restingFacts)
"If." --Spartan response to Macedons threatening to invade (Lindwyrm)
~IFGroup LTG
The key of the Fosbury flop technique, used by all high level athletes, is indeed to have most of your body below the bar, in order to raise further the part (head, arms, back and legs in succession) that has to pass over the bar.
(fun fact : I came upon this fact while trying to replicate for my physics students the jump of the world record with real data on speed and angle of jump. If you just look at the center of gravity you always miss by some centimeters… One could say that no one ever actually jumped as high as the world record)
It's a great fact, though
(Sorry, i am reposting this but i don’t think anyone saw it)