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The hottest possible temperature is 1,420,000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000,000,000 degrees Celsius. This occurred but once when the Universe was but .0001 second old. The hottest temperature man ever created was 5,500,000,000,000. This was done at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Switzerland.
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Peppers, even the uber-hot Carolina Reaper pepper, are fruits.
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Yes Anthony, we all know the highest mountain in the world is Mt. Everest. But did you know the deepest spot in all of the oceans goes 36,198 feet down and is called “Challenger Deep”? It is in the Pacific southwest of Guam. If you plopped Mt. Everest in that spot there would still be over a mile of water above it.
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Yes Skyler Jane, Indian Harbour Beach was the first “tsunami-ready” city in Florida according to the National Weather Service.
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The English government purchased 500,000 arrows in 1421. That was up from 150,000 three years earlier. The arrows were fletched with goose feathers which were taken from the peasantry as a tax, six feathers per goose.
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Murderer Gary Gilmore’s last words before his execution in 1977 were “Just do it.” That is what inspired the Nike advertising slogan. Really.
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Russians have a specific word for “one and a half”.
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Buzz Aldrin had a communion wafer and a small vial of communion wine that had been blessed by his pastor when he landed on the moon. After the lunar module touched down, Aldrin asked everyone to take a moment to give thanks in their own way. He then read scripture and took communion on the moon.
Aldrin, a Presbyterian, wanted the event to be broadcast back to earth. But NASA decided against it since the agency was embroiled with a lawsuit with atheist Madelyn Murry O’Hair.
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The hottest recorded temperature on Earth happened on July 10, 1913 when the mercury hit 134 F at Furnace Creek Ranch in Death Valley California.
The highest recorded temperature in Antarctica was 63.5 F at Hope Bay Trinity Peninsula on March 24, 2015.
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Egyptians used boxes of sand akin to a cat’s litter box for toilets.