Interesting Facts - Page 168

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Bamboo can grow more than 1 meter in height in less than 24 hours.

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Sonny Bono is the only person to both serve in the U.S. Congress and to record a #1 hit record single on the U.S. pop charts.

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Joe Biden was born closer to Abraham Lincoln's second inauguration in 1865 than to his own inauguration in 2021.

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The Nazis built a rocket-powered plane: The Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet. To date, it remains the only operational rocket-powered fighter plane in world history. It was also the first plane of any type to exceed 1000 km/hr in level flight.

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The land that is now Arlington National Cemetery was once a plantation owned by Robert E. Lee that was seized during the Civil War.

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Level 68

Mar 23, 2023

Bono was a politician???

Level 56

Mar 23, 2023

I thought he was bbirtish though...

Level 35

Mar 24, 2023

Northern Irish! Not British! This is a subject of hot political debate!

Level 65

Jun 12, 2023

Born in Dublin, Bono's Mom had the surname Rankin, from the Inner Hebrides, maybe from the time the British were planting those of us who were Protestants.

The Rankins in CBI are Catholic, though, and few of us from the last generations adhere to the sectarianism of old.

A family Catholic church that burned in PEI in the 1800s was rebuilt by all denominations.

Also, the clans and fighters who stood up for the '45 were both Protestant and Catholic.

Huh. Not for nothin, but...

Sonny Bono's first wife was Donna Rankin.

Level 39

Apr 12, 2023

Sonny Bono, Cher's late husband not Bono from U2

Level 47

Jul 14, 2023

Pikachurin is a enzyme in human body that transmits electrical impulses to the brain. As you can guess, it was named after Pikachu