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The steel in ships sunk before the atom bomb was detonated in 1945 is valuable. Modern steel is contaminated by atmospheric radiation due to the bombs. The amount is small but it affects things like medical devices, scientific equipment, spaces sensors and, of course, Geiger counters. The old, low-background steel is what makes old ships valuable salvage.
The electrical resistance of the body is 100,000 Ohms when dry. When wet or if the skin is broken this can drop to 1,000 Ohms. This means 120 volts will be barely noticed by a dry person but might kill a wet one.
Floridians eat iguanas. They are referred to as “chicken of the trees”.
The Transamerica Pyramid might be San Francisco’s most famous building but the company for which it is named now headquartered in Cedar Rapids Ia. and with Pyramid’s sale in February is no longer associated with it.
 The Library of Congress is preserving video games. Worthy games are part of the game canon. Among those so deemed is Duke Nukem. Yes Anthony, you can find the source code of the unreleased PlayStation Portable game Duke Nukem: Critical Mass in the Library of Congress.
You cannot find the source code for Asteroids or Centipede, though. That was thrown out in the trash when Atari closed in 1996.
There almost was a Duke of Arkansas. Scottish financier John Law got close to French Royalty back in 1721 after cooking up a scheme to get that nation out of debt. His apparent success gained him a charter to manage the Louisiana Territory for 25 years. He set aside a 12-square mile concession for himself along the Arkansas River about 25 miles from where it meets the Mississippi.
Law’s financing, however, was based on promises that could not be fulfilled and his dream collapsed. If he had succeeded though, his concession would have been a duchy and he would have been Duke of Arkansas.
Renewable Energy Surpasses Coal — Energy from renewable sources surpassed that from coal in 2019. Coal provided 11.3 quadrillion British thermal units compared to 11.5 quadrillion British thermal units from things like wind, hydro-electric, solar, geothermal and bio i.e. wood. Wind has passed hydro-electric as the most used source of renewables.
The flexible pipes used by offshore oil rigs have their roots in Operation Pluto, which as the laying of pipes under the English Channel shortly after D-Day to supply allied forces in France.
The Bank of America started as The Bank of Italy.