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In 1944, nine U.S. airmen escaped from their planes after being shot down over the island of Chichi Jima. Eight of the nine men were captured and executed by the Japanese, and some of their bodies were eaten. The one man to escape? Future U.S. President George H. W. Bush.
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Plato defined man as a featherless biped.
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Medieval Europeans expanded the system of Roman numerals by adding many more characters such as ↅ for 6, X̷ for 9.5, and Ω for 800. Fortunately for humanity, Roman numerals were eventually replaced by the vastly-superior Arabic numerals by the year 1500.
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There are three trees in California which you can drive through. In case you are wondering, these tunnels were built for tourist purposes and are very bad for the tree.
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The Pacific Ocean is so large that there are places where, if you drilled a hole through the center of the Earth, both sides of the hole would emerge in the Pacific Ocean.
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2. It took the creator of the Rubik’s Cube, Erno Rubik, one month to solve the cube after creating it; as of June 2018, the world record is 4.22 seconds.
3. Eight of the ten largest statues in the world are of Buddhas.
4. In 2014, a missing woman on vacation in Iceland was found when it was discovered that she was in the search party looking for herself.
5, If you sneeze while traveling at 60 mph, your eyes are closed for an average of 50 feet.
6. Alligators will give manatees the right of way if they are swimming near each other.
7. There is an opposite of albino animals, which aren’t white, but black. These are known as Melanistic animals.
8. “Digging a hole to China” is theoretically possible if you sta
rt in Argentina.
9. Strawberries can also be white or yellow, and some can even taste like pineapples!
10. The University of Minnesota is older than Minnesota, the state itself!
Also, the most common and fastest method, CFOP, involves solving the first side before solving the rest of the cube. How would it be slower to solve just the first side than the rest of the cube?
In Cubing, side means that all the stickers on a side are the same color, which is what most people think you have to do, but what is actually used in most cubing methods is layers, which is getting layers of pieces correct. Like if the white-red edge is between the white and green center that's not solved, but it might seem like it's matching up with white, although you really need it between white and green centers so it's solved. So a solved layer shouldn't just look like a face of matching pieces, but a bit of each side around it matching as well, since each piece goes between two or three sides. Most records are filmed by the solver, this was an exception, but anyway, there are judges in competitions to approve the time, and the World Cubing Association also has to approve it. In the video of the record why would everyone (continuing)
This video is about challenges that seem easy like solving one side, but aren't because you don't practice them, showing how practice is important.
And this is a challenge where he actually tried side by side.
Here's a video showing the World Record visualized.
If you are wondering, not a good way to leave North Korea, there's a river running there.
But I get what you mean, digging straght thru the earth.
This makes the Missing Woman look way less stupid:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/missing-woman-finds-herself-after-intense-search/
It says, what can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.
2- Scientists can turn peanut butter into diamond.
3- On Mars, Sunsets are blue.
4- Male seahorses can get pregenant.
5- Before erasers, Breads were used to erase pencil marks.
6- Beside sucking our blood, Mosquitoes urinate on our skin.
2. They can also do a bunch of other things not so special
3. Cool, but Jetpunk has high standards for facts
4. Include this!
5. Yeah, they had to use something right?
5. They gotta do it somewhere right?
Broken Arrow in Oklahoma
Normal in Texas
Lonely in michigan
and there does not appear to be a location where that would be true.
Just south of the equator in Indonesia
The source is the Wikipedia page on the list of US Aircraft carriers.
Ever wondered why the "u" in words like colour or armour are often taken out in America? This dates back to during the American colonies. The cost for printing was high and every letter contributed, so, thinking it was unnecessary, early American pioneers took out the letter, influencing the modern culture to this day.
1. Murder a visitor
2. Shoot from the uninhabited location someone in a habited one
Sri Jayawardenepura ____
when you type kotte, the blank fills in. How do you do this?
Sri Jayawardenepura {Kotte}
The regex will look like the above, but if you look closer, it says "Kotte".
Mama, just killed a {man}
It will show:
Mama, just killed a ___
Accepts:
"man"
2 : if you filled a matchbox with gold it could be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court
3 : before 1850 golf balls were made of leather and were stuffed with feathers
4 : the word 'uncopyrightable' is the is the only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating any letter
5 : bulletproof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and laser printers were all all invented by women
6 : the brand Nokia is named after a place in Southern Finland
7 : small dogs usually live longer than larger breeds
8 : the Giant Pacific Octopus can squeeze its entire body through a hole the size of its beak
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Attu