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Interesting Facts - Page 242
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The axolotl is only found in the wild in few small bodies of water in Mexico City.
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There is a subdivision in Europe where Buddhism is the majority religion. This is Kalmykia, a Russian republic which lies on the Caspian Sea. It is home to the Kalmyks, a Mongolian steppe people who migrated from Mongolia and who practice Tibetan Buddhism.
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Each year, an estimated 100,000 people die from snake bites. But a heroic man from Wisconsin named Tim Friede is helping to lessen this number. By allowing himself to be bitten by venomous snakes over 200 times, he has developed immunity to a wide variety of snake venom. His blood is being used to develop a universal antivenom that can be given to snake bite victims without needing to know the type of snake that bit them.
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Until a meteorite shower hit L'Aigle, France in 1803, it was not commonly accepted among scientists that meteorites even existed, with many dismissing them as a legend.
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The largest locust swarm on record was formed in 1875 by the now-extinct Rocky Mountain locust. It was 2,900 km long, 180 km wide, and involved an estimated 3.5 trillion locusts.
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- A teaspoon of a neutron star would weigh about 6 billion tons, or the rough weight of Mount Everest.
- If two pieces of metal were to touch in space, they would bond together, permanently.
- If you spent just one hour near a supermassive black hole, centuries or even millennia could pass back on Earth.
- You can fit every single planet in our solar system in-between Earth and the Moon with room to spare
- In the past few hundred million years, the moon has shrunk around 150 feet from interior cooling
- Even though the Milky Way and Andromeda Galaxys will collide with each other in about 4 billion years, it is unlikely for any star to collide as space is so empty
He also promised them that he would capture them and finish them.
True to his word, as soon as he was let free, he raised a private fleet, attacked them in their island, recovered the silver talents, took the prisoners to Roman land, ordered their crucifixion and (because they had grown on him) slit their throats so they would not suffer through the whole ordeal.
Bear in mind: by that time, he was just a nobleman with no military office.
His rationale was that such a cultural and religious treasure could not be destroyed (some said that another factor was that Stimson honeymooned there).
After several times when Kyoto was re-added to the main target list over and over again, Stimson appealed to President Truman, who agreed with him and permanently scratched it off the list.
This caused another city to enter into the main target list as a replacement: Nagasaki.
I much prefer a human interaction when getting my food, because I know they would at least give me something if they mess up!
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They were caused by people deciding what Kingdom to be a part of. The kingdoms later became a part of Belgium and Netherlands, creating a confusing border
There have been three other rulers from 1991-1994, however they were only temporary rulers until the election in 1994, never official presidents.
There have been three Israeli presidents born in regions that are now Belarus. I did send an explaination message replying to Pontiac claiming that my fact was false, but he deleted his message which deleted mine.
The tree Welwitschia mirabilis can live to over 1,000 years, but only grows two leaves.
About 136 MLB players have hit a home run in their first MLB at bat.
Wind turbines kill between 10,000 and 100,000 birds each year in the UK.
And to make it more comparable, the largest known structure in the universe is HCB Great Wall which is about 10 billion light years. Isn't the figure of bacteria spanning 10 billion light years a bit too exaggerated?
Anyways the wording of the original reply which started this IDL v/s 180th meridian controversy is kinda incorrect. If you say "the westernmost point of Russia is further east than the easternmost point of Russia," then it makes very little sense to call Kaliningrad the westernmost point of Russia. That title would go to whatever portion of Russia extends over the 180th meridian. Essentially it makes the westernmost and easternmost point of Russia the same, no?(Which also renders my fact incorrect and baloney)Because you have the westernmost point and the easternmost point at the same place. (Sorry if my comment is too long)
Here I insert a map to make things easier to understand:
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Woodpeckers tongues wrap around their brain to cushion them from a concussion when they peck against tree trunks.
The man who invented the match.com website lost his wife to a man she met ... on match.com
The correct sentence would be, "I wish I were a leech," not "I wish I was a leech." The latter sentence is dismally wrong.