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Gilligan of Gilligan's Island had a first name that was only used once, on the never-aired pilot show. His first name was Willy.

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Beelzebub, another name for the devil, is Hebrew for "Lord of the Flies", and this is where the book's title comes from.

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The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.

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Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history. Spades -King David, Clubs -Alexander the Great, Hearts - Charlemagne, and Diamonds -Julius Caesar.

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The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time television were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.

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Montpelier, Vermont is the only U.S. state capital without a McDonalds.

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Patrick Stewart to star in new Star Trek TV series

Stewart will reprise his iconic character, Jean-Luc Picard, for a CBS All Access series that “will tell the story of the next chapter of Picard’s life.”

"The B-17G,named "Lady Lacey" (after Art Lacey's British wife),began undergoing a serious restoration effort in 2012,when the nose and cockpit were removed.On August 13, 2014, the rest of the bomber was removed,and the restoration proceeds at the B-17 Alliance Museum in Salem.The Lacey family estimated that the plane could be worth millions if restored to flying condition,which meant bye-bye bomber forever as a gas station awning." https://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/2968

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Something you very rarely ever see: NASCAR stock cars with windshield wipers. Photo taken 8/4/18 at Watkins Glen, NY

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Found only in central and southeast Florida, the Red Widow Spider is just as deadly as it's Black cousin

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Belgica Antarctica - the only insect that is native to Antarctica along with being the only insect found in Antarctica. It's a very tiny wingless fly less than a 1/4 inch in size.

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The fastest flying insect is the male horsefly which can reach speed bursts of 90 mph.

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The insect with the longest lifespan is the Termite Queen: 50 years!

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The strongest insect is the Horned Dung Beetle which can pull 1,141 times it's own body weight

To put that in prospective. If a 200 pound man had the same pulling ability, he could pull 228,200 pounds (1141 tons).

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Arabic numerals (the ones used in English) were not invented by the Arabs at all - they were actually invented by Indian mathematicians.

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Soon after building started in 1173, the foundation of the Pisa tower settled unevenly. Construction was stopped, and was continued only a 100 years later. Therefore, the leaning tower was never straight.

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What's one way to tell if an older egg is fresh? After putting an egg in a glass of water, if the egg sits at an angle or stands on one end, the egg is older, but still edible. If the egg floats, it should be discarded. Sinking to the bottom denotes a fresh egg.

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Penguins' eyes work better underwater than in the air. This is attributed to their need to hunt food underwater as opposed to just standing out on the ice.

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Both rose hips and rose petals are edible. Roses are in the same family as apples and crabapples, so the resemblance of their fruits is not purely coincidental.

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Giant penguins about the size of a grown man waddled around New Zealand about 59 million years ago.

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It is theoretically possible to travel back and forth in time. Two physicists developed a mathematical model for a time machine based on Einstein’s theory of relativity (which was proven in 2015), that gravitational fields are caused by distortions in the fabric of space and time. What’s holding us back is that the technology that can physically bend this space-time fabric hasn’t been invented yet.

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Lake Baikal in Russia has the distinction of being the deepest lake in the world with an average depth of 2,442 feet and the deepest point of 5,387 feet.

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Of all the natural substances found on the planet, the diamond has the highest melting point. At 1 atmosphere it will not melt. It burns though turning into a vapor. To melt a diamond (turn it into liquid form) you need super high heat (5000K) and massive pressure (99,000 atmospheres)

BTW - 1 atmosphere = 14.7 psi

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The world's largest amphibian is the giant salamander. It can grow up to 5 ft. in length.

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A new born blue whale measures 20-26 feet (6.0 - 7.9 meters) long and weighs up to 6,614 pounds (3003 kg).

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The largest flying animal was the Pterosaur which lived 70 million years ago. This reptile had a wing span of 36-39 feet and weighed 190-250 pounds.

To give you some prospective on that wingspan, an F-18 Hornet has a wingspan of 40 feet 4 inches

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The greatest tide change on earth occurs in the Bay of Fundy, Nova Scotia. The difference between low tide and high tide can be as great as 54 ft. 6 in.

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The highest temperature produced in a laboratory was 920,000,000 F (511,000,000 C) at the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor in Princeton, NJ, USA.

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Velcro was invented by Swiss electrical engineer George de Mestral who was inspired by the way burrs attached to clothing while taking a walk in the woods in 1941.

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According to an old English system of time units, a moment is one and a half minutes.

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North Dakota is the only state never to have experienced an earthquake.

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Cars were first made with ignition keys in 1949.

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Flying from London to New York by Concord, due to the time zones crossed, you can arrive 2 hours before you leave.

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There is enough fuel in a full tank of a Jumbo Jet to drive an average car four times around the world.

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A Boeing 707 uses four thousand gallons of fuel in its take-off climb.

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An ostrich's eye is bigger that its brain.

My dad restored a 1940 Chevy Deluxe for a friend and it has an ignition key. It only has one door lock cylinder and it's on the passenger's side.

Amazing 224 pages of cool info. Thanks Lee. I had to show my mom the beautiful pictures yesterday