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The original name of Liberty Island, home of the Statue of Liberty, was Bedloe's Island.
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"Police police Police police police police Police police." is a valid sentence, since "police" is both a noun and a verb.
The Chinese are twice as willing to purchase products "Made in America" than Chinese products.
The game "Pokemon Go" earned an estimated US$200 million in its first month.
Good morning, I see yesterday got out of control... 2784 comments in total. My guess is that it will stay at least as top 3 till the end of this thread
Louis Armstrong spent his adult life celebrating the wrong birthday. He believed it was July 4th, 1900, but it was actually August 4th, 1901.
The man who inspired the 2004 Tom Hanks movie "The Terminal" spent 18 years living at the departure lounge of Charles de Gaulle Airport.
The heaviest para powerlift by a male in the -97 kg category is 255 kg (562 lb 2 oz), achieved by Abdelkareem Khattab (Jordan) at the Fazza 12th Dubai 2022 Para Powerlifting World Cup in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on 17 December 2022.
Legends say China began in a great flood, some 4,000 years ago. Scientists found geological evidence that the flood was real.
562 is the sum of twelve consecutive primes (23 + 29 + 31 + 37 + 41 + 43 + 47 + 53 + 59 + 61 + 67 + 71).
Morning Ed, i think it will stay at top, unless frankie actually get a bot to post 24x7!
The 'fuel efficiency' of walking is roughly equivalent to 360 miles per gallon.
Apple recovered 2,204 pounds of gold from broken iPhones in 2015. That's worth about US$40 million.
The creator of Legos made a policy of no military sets because he didn't want war to seem like child's play.
A USB memory stick is more powerful than the computer system that guided the Apollo spacecraft to the moon.
Venus spins in the opposite direction from most other planets so that on Venus the sun rises in the west.
The word 'Nicotine' is derived from Frenchman Jean Nicot who introduced tobacco to France in 1560.
Marijuana absorbs nuclear radiation. In 1998, the Ukraine's Institute of Bast Crops planted industrial marijuana to help remove contaminants in the soil near Chernobyl.
If you could see as well as the Camera on the Hubble Space Telescope, you would be able to read the fine print on a newspaper 1 mile away.
Earth spins at around 1,000 mph and hurtles through space in its orbit around the sun at about 67,000 mph.
The world's largest underwater volcano, Tamu Massif, is the size of New Mexico.
Lenticular clouds are rare formations that can look like UFOs. They are formed when wind encounters an obstruction such as a mountain.
Instead of "Once upon a time," many Korean folktales begin with "Back when tigers used to smoke..."
Microwave ovens were invented by accident. Percy Spencer was standing in front of an active radar set when he noticed the candy bar he had in his pocket had melted.
Astronomers estimate that the observable universe has more than 100 billion galaxies.
The US Postal Service handles 47% of the entire world's mail.
Saying "Thank you" makes people see you as a warmer person, a study found.
Interrogative self-talk --e.g. Will I go for a run today?-- is more motivating than declaring something to be true, a study found.
Wolves became tamer companions and evolved into dogs about 27,000 years ago.