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The average person can detect temperature differences of a single degree Fahrenheit. Not true of Celsius which has a unit of measurement that is 1.8 times that of F.
An easy-to-remember yet impure-for-serious stuff way of converting Celsius to Fahrenheit to is to double C and add 30.
The island of Mackinac, Michigan banned horseless carriages in 1898 and never repealed the law. That’s right Anthony, you can’t have car on Mackinac.
The longest observed lightning flash was 7.74 seconds and occurred Aug. 30, 2012 at Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, France.
Yes Miranda, there really was a Zambian space program. It was headed by school teacher Edward Makuka Nkoloso. Astronauts trained by being rolled down a hill in an oil drum and by walking on their hands.
No Anthony, the worst wedding in history wasn’t on May 30, 1867 when Prince Amadeo of Savoy married Princess Maria Vittoria dal Pozzo.
Yes, there is an internet story about how the wardrobe mistress hanged herself, and a colonel died after falling off his horse, and the palace gatekeeper was found dead and the best man shot himself in lieu of making the toast, and a stationmaster was crushed by the honeymoon train but that is all internet hooey.
Well, the part about the stationmaster getting crushed by the honeymoon train is true, but the rest, hooey.
“Religion of Peace” should only be written with an LOL. Eighty percent of the world’s conflicts involve Muslims as of Sept. 11, 2019 according to Wikipedia.
Of the four in the Major War Category in the site’s List of Ongoing Armed Conflicts page, three link to Muslims, with the Mexican drug war being the exception.
Of the seven in the Wars Category, all do.
It’s 13 out of 20 in the Minor Conflicts Category.
Of the 13 in the Skirmishes and Clashes Category, nine link to Muslims.
The typical lightning bolt is about as wide as a silver dollar. You all know what a silver dollar is right? OK, 38mm. OK, an inch and a half.
Who is John Malone? He’s a guy who got filthy rich running 1980s cable TV giant TCI and is now the largest landowner in the United States with 2.2 million acres. Note the state of Delaware is just 1.2 million acres.
The deepest part of the Atlantic Ocean is the Brownson Deep in the Puerto Rico Trench just north of Puerto Rico. It’s 5.2 miles to the bottom there.
Thunder rumbles and claps and peals and rolls. Thunderclaps are high-pitched, loud and last between .2 and 2 seconds. A peal means its changing in loudness and pitch. Rolling thunder is it irregularly changes in loudness and pitch. A rumble it means it’s not loud but very long. Some of us swear we heard a rumble for well over a minute.