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Interesting Facts - Page 95
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There is a highway interchange in the Houston area which takes up an area equivalent to the entire city center of Sienna, Italy (home to about 30,000 people).
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On April 18, 1930, the BBC announced, "There is no news today," and just played piano music instead.
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St. John's, Newfoundland, is closer to Croatia than it is to Vancouver.
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Between 1913–1915, several people mailed babies using the U.S. Postal Service.
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In 1889, parts of Oklahoma, previously reserved for Native Americans, were opened up for white settlement. On a day in April, over 50,000 people lined up outside. The rules were simple: first come, first served. At noon, the signal was given and they rushed into the land to claim what they could with. Unfortunately for them, other people had got there "sooner" and claimed much of the good land. This is why today Oklahoma is known as the "Sooner State".
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However, people have searched which one, and the "winner" is apparently this one in Northeast Houston (I-10 & I-610)
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Inglewood,+CA/@33.9285979,-118.2806375,1372m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x80c2b656274bdd8d:0x727b30fdcae3170!8m2!3d33.9616801!4d-118.3531311
Wojtek is a bear
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handshake
A lot of "cool facts" are not in fact facts, such as those printed on Snapple lids, for example.
Sounds nice? Not at all: The dome would cost so much (I believe the figure was round the 2 billion dollars), yet it would only protect Downtown Houston, leaving the rest of the city as vulnerable as ever.
And considering that everyone and their granny would go to Downtown Houston to protect themselves during a hurricane, that would be a mess of overcrowding and heavy crammed highways.
Medicine Hat is surprisingly a really lovely city. I believe British Columbia takes the prize for strangest/most interesting names. There are a series of communities along the former HBC Brigade Trail (Gold Rush Era) which are named by their distance along the trail. The largest of these is 100 Mile House, but there also exists 93 Mile House, 150 Mile House, etc.
Another odd Canadian name can be found in Quebec, Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha! which always contains the two exclamation marks in its name. The town is thought to derive its name from 'haha', an archaic French word for an inpasse, although there are similarly named locales in the Saguenay region which are thought to carry over the 'Ha! Ha!' word from the indigenous Montagnais language.
It turns out it's real, maybe the one single thing he's not making up.
Thanks for showing me that
So she was his his 2nd cousin on his father's side and 3rd cousin twice removed on his mother's side, with both his parents already descended from queen Victoria as was his love interest.
When Mountbatten was assassinated by Irish terrorists she broke away from Charles not wanting to be drawn closer into the central family and the dangers at the time.
The roots of the royal family tree are like bonsai stumps.
"they rushed into the land to claim what they could with."
"with" what?