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Interesting Facts - Page 64
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Political opponents of U.S. President Chester A. Arthur claimed that he was born in Canada and therefore ineligible to become President.
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As part of the Apollo project, astronauts placed mirror-like "retroreflectors" on the moon. Using these reflectors, we can bounce lasers off the moon and accurately measure the distance from Earth to Moon by timing how long it takes the light to return.
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Dr. Henry Heimlich, inventor of the "Heimlich maneuver", never used his own technique until very late in life. At age 96, he employed the maneuver to save a woman in his nursing home from choking.
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Developed by Germany during WWII, the V-2 rocket was the world's first long-range guided ballistic missile. It was ruinously expensive and largely pointless. In fact, more people died building V-2 rockets than died when the bombs exploded over their targets in Allied countries.
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During WWII, Allied soldiers built airplane runways on remote islands in Oceania. These runways were used to land valuable supplies for the war effort. Native people on these islands observed this correlation and built runways of their own, hoping that supply-laden planes would land there. This phenomenon is known as a "cargo cult".
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1. The One World Trade Center in New York is 1,776 feet tall. done so intentionally to remember the year of U.S Independence.
2. Bookkeeper is the only english word with three consecutive double letters.
3. The word Arena comes from the Latin word for sand because sand was often on the floor of Roman amphitheaters in order to absorb blood.
4. More words do not follow the I before E rule than do follow it
5. There are four elements named after the town of Ytterby Sweden (Ytterbium, Yttrium, Terbium, Erbium)
6. About 85% of Nevada is Federal Land.
7. The state vegetable of Oklahoma is the Watermelon
what about this? contraction of the art of incorrectly being a subbookkeeper?