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China’s Three Gorges Dam is usually considered the world’s most powerful hydro-plant with a capacity of producing 22.500 MW (megawatts or 1 million watts per hour), but world record holder for making water-power is the Itaipu Dam which is jointly run by Brazil and Paraguay. It has produced 103.1 TW (terawatts or 1 trillion watts) in the course of a year. Three Gorges has only managed 98.8 TW.
The Pied Piper story is likely based in fact. Apparently 130 children really did vanish on a June day in 1284 from the German village of Hamelin. Professor Jurgen Udolph thinks they ended up near the Baltic Sea as part of a government colonization plan.
Chauffeur is not French for driver but for stoker. The first cars were steam-powered and required the engine to be stoked i.e. continuously fueled with coal.
Margaretha von Waldeck was the daughter of Philip IV, Count of Waldeck-Wildungen and Margaret Cirksena, who was his first wife. Margaretha was renowned for her beauty. She died at age 21 in the court of Mary of Hungary.
She was thought to have been poisoned. Some think she was the inspiration for Snow White. No, her stepmom, Katharina vo Hatzfeld was not a suspect. Her father did own a copper mine, however, and many of the workers were children who were about the size of dwarfs.
The British used an airgun that fired potatoes as an anti-aircraft weapon in World War II. Actually, it could fire just about anything. It was called the Holman Projector. Yes, it worked. Airplanes were shot down with it.
7-Up’s original name was Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime Soda. It was because it included lithium salts.
Bamboo salt a.k.a. jugyeom goes for about $160 per pound. Show the world you’re rich. Use it to clear the ice from your walk.
The McDonald’s double cheeseburger is the most nutritious food in history. Well some say so anyway.
Our tallest president is our greatest. Abraham Lincoln was 6-4. In second place is our worst. Lyndon Baines Johnson was 6-3 1/2
George Washington, our other greatest president, was 6-2.
In third place i our other greatest president, Donald Trump, who stands 6-3.
Most dogs have 16 toes — four on each paw. Some have an extra toe on the back paws. Some like the Great Pyrenees have up to two toes on the back paws.