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re: Interesting facts for people who like interesting facts.
Posted on 11/10/17 at 11:30 pm to JPinLondon
Posted on 11/10/17 at 11:30 pm to JPinLondon
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when traveling from the Pacific to the Atlantic through the Panama Canal, a ship will primarily be pointed North Northwest
-Panama is the only place where the sun rises over the Pacific Ocean and sets on the Atlantic Ocean.
-Alaska is our northern most, western most, and eastern most state.
-As simple as it sounds, experts can’t seem to agree on the length of a coastline.
-There’s an estimated 10^120 different possible chess games. There’s only 10^80 atoms in the known universe.
-The Rubik’s Cube has 43 quintillion combinations. Laid out they would cover all of Great Britain.
-By total mass, ants outweigh any other species. (And are one of the extreme few natural predators of healthy full grown elephants. They kill them by swarming them and suffocating the elephant.)
-(IIRC) Bats are nearly 1/4 of the total number of mammals.
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Posted on 11/10/17 at 11:30 pm to JPinLondon
Bechtel built that
Posted on 11/10/17 at 11:33 pm to SlapahoeTribe
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Alaska is our northern most, western most, and eastern most state.
Also the last shots of the civil war were in Alaska
Posted on 11/10/17 at 11:36 pm to RogerTheShrubber
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Also the last shots of the civil war were in Alaska
Okay, I’m going to need an explanation for this one.
Posted on 11/10/17 at 11:38 pm to SlapahoeTribe
The Bering Sea.
This post was edited on 11/10/17 at 11:38 pm
Posted on 11/10/17 at 11:41 pm to Displaced
The longest commonly used one syllable world is “squirreled”
Posted on 11/10/17 at 11:42 pm to SlapahoeTribe
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Okay, I’m going to need an explanation for this one
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unique battle flag hangs in the Confederate Museum in Richmond, Va. It's the flag of the only ship in the southern navy to have circumnavigated the globe. The one that fluttered as cannons fired the final volleys in the war. The last to be lowered in surrender.
And the only Civil War ensign -- Yankee or Rebel --to have flown in action in Alaska.
Posted on 11/10/17 at 11:53 pm to RogerTheShrubber
Learn something new everyday.
From that article-
From that article-
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Evidence of their charm emerged in accounts of a stop for repairs in Melbourne, Australia. In those days it was the custom to give a button from your uniform to a lady with whom you had ''dallied.'' When the Shenandoah's officers shipped out, Schooler noted, their uniforms were held together with pins and string.
Posted on 11/11/17 at 12:07 am to SlapahoeTribe
Posted on 11/11/17 at 4:13 am to SlapahoeTribe
Most grave sites face toward the East Direction. This is to allow the departed to meet Jesus when He appears in his second coming ( from the East).
Posted on 11/11/17 at 5:01 am to SlapahoeTribe
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1/2 + 1/4 + 1/8 + 1/16 ... = 1
This one, I believe.
Posted on 11/11/17 at 7:21 am to SlapahoeTribe
The south did rise...again and again and again...
Posted on 11/11/17 at 7:42 am to Displaced
The teacher that was Christa macauliffes backup for the Challenger mission later joined the astronaut corps and flew on a shuttle mission.
Kodak invented the digital camera but sat on the tech because they didn’t want to cut in to their film business.
Kodak invented the digital camera but sat on the tech because they didn’t want to cut in to their film business.
Posted on 11/11/17 at 7:44 am to MottLaneKid
This is true.
And also, why do they put fences around cemeteries?
Because people are dieing to get in
And also, why do they put fences around cemeteries?
Because people are dieing to get in
Posted on 11/11/17 at 7:48 am to Displaced
I'm looking at United States map, and I'm just not buying it about Savannah being farther West than Youngstown ohio
Posted on 11/11/17 at 8:04 am to Bruco
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Texarkana, TX is closer to Chicago than it is to El Paso.
Cairo, Illinois is closer to Jackson, Mississippi than it is to Chicago.
Posted on 11/11/17 at 8:08 am to Missouri Waltz
You are now manually breathing
Posted on 11/11/17 at 8:15 am to CatsGoneWild
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I'm looking at United States map, and I'm just not buying it about Savannah being farther West than Youngstown ohio
Hint: the map is flat, but the earth isn't.
Posted on 11/11/17 at 8:17 am to CatsGoneWild
Savannah is -81.099 degrees West, Youngstown is -80.649. For reference, Pittsburgh (which is undeniably East of Youngstown) is -79.995.
ETA: To further blow your mind Africa is bigger than China, India, the contiguous U.S. and most of Europe combined.
ETA: To further blow your mind Africa is bigger than China, India, the contiguous U.S. and most of Europe combined.
This post was edited on 11/11/17 at 8:24 am
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