The Pacific Ocean entrance to the Panama Canal is East of the Gulf of Mexico entrance.
The Pacific Ocean entrance to the Panama Canal is East of the Gulf of Mexico entrance.
Maranas Trench wrote:
The deepest place in the ocean is The Challenger Deep with a depth of at least 10,900 and possiblly as much as 11,000 meters.
Jacques Piccard & Don Walsh rode The Trieste bathyscape to the bottom in 1960 the deepest under water man has ever gone.
James Cameron duplicated the feat.
There was no existence of the name Wendy for girls until Peter Pan.
Horace Ashenfelter never ran the steeplechase while attending Penn State.
At Johnny Angel's Heavenly Hamburgers in Skaneateless, NY you can buy a sandwich called The Hillary. It is mostly baloney.
The second man to reach the North Pole was black. I'm sure it was agreed that he would come in second much the same way as Norgay being second to Hillary.
"Balls to the wall", referenced a few pages back on this thread, actual pertains to a centrifugal regulator. The faster the motor spun, the closer the balls of the centrifuge were to the wall.
Since the War of 1812, the only U.S. soil (with a sizeable population) to be occupied by a foreign power was Guam, during WWII.
The only U.S. states that have never had official temperatures higher than 100 are Alaska and Hawaii.
From east to west, Hawaii is the widest of the U.S. states (1500+ miles).
Outside agitator wrote:
The only U.S. states that have never had official temperatures higher than 100 are Alaska and Hawaii.
Another cool one about temperature in the US: The exact same tiny town in Alaska held the state record for both high and low temperature up until 1971. Fort Yukon recorded a temperature of 100 F in 1915, marking a state high that has yet to be surpassed. It also recorded a temperature of -78 F (I'm not sure the date) which was the coldest temperature ever recorded in both Alaska and the United States up until a temp of -80 F was recorded in Prospect Creek in the early 70s. That's an almost 180 degree difference between the record high and low!
The only other place in the world that sees that kind of temperature swing from Winter to Summer is Northeastern Siberia. This area of Siberia gets pretty warm in the summer. Temps are usually in the 70s and sometimes can spike into the 80s and even the low 90s on occasion. In the winter, however, it is the coldest place on earth outside of Antarctica. The AVERAGE January temperature in towns such as Verkhoyansk and Oymyakon is around -45 F. The average low during the winter is around -55 F and temps below -60 F are common. The hottest temperature ever recorded in January was 8 F. Both these towns have about a 200 F difference between their record high and low
The only word in the English language with three y's is syzygy - coincidentally describing the alignment of three or more celestial bodies in a row.
Napoleon was Italian not French. Ethnically, I mean.
Roy Sullivan, Shenandoah National Park park ranger, was hit by lightning 7 times in his life, a world record. He shot himself dead at age 71, unfortunately.
South Dakota is the only US state with a capital city containing no corresponding letters.
Will Ferrell's real name is John Ferrell
There is a shrub in Australia that is a clonal plant that has been the sole member of its species for as long as science can tell. It has no genetic variability.
The average length of the American phallus is 5.5 inches (as of a 2005 statistic).
In 1980, the average length of the American phallus was 6.0 inches.
Where did that .5 go?
Asian and S. American immigration.
The world's largest known organism is a single aspen clone found in Utah which weighs an estimated 13 million pounds - about five times as much as the largest sequoia tree.
The fifth domestic electrical appliance--patented by Hamilton Beach in 1902--was the vibrator, which came (so to speak) after the sewing machine, fan, tea kettle, and toaster, and about a decade before the vacuum cleaner and electric iron.
That's a superorganism, dipwad. Just because they're all clones doesn't mean they're the same tree. A sequoia is way more badass than an aspen clone.
Here are some better facts off the top of my head:
The Brazilian Wandering Spider is not nearly as deadly as reputed. A medical study recorded only 1 death out of several hundred bites.
Japanese women produce no pheremones in their armpit sweat.
After the Plague of Justinian wiped out the population of Italy, it was invaded and taken over by stout Nordic people called Longbeards. Their name morphed into Lombards and they founded the kingdom of Lombardy. Attacking and conquering Italy is a favored pastime among wandering Nordic tribes.
Volcanic eruptions in Iceland in the 18th century released so much sulphur that much of Europe was covered in a fog of sulphuric acid for several months, causing environmental devastation and killing thousands of people. The same volcanoes are due to erupt again soon.
Ghost of Ashenfelter wrote:
The movie Beau Geste (1939) didn't win any Academy Awards, but it had more future "Best Actor" and "Best Actress" winners than any other motion picture in history.
Beau Geste is a great movie. Made me want to join the French Foreign Legion.
Going My Way made me want to be a priest.
I ended up in a very different place.