The record for the fastest vehicle on water was set in 1978 by Australian Ken Warby. His boat, the Spirit of Australia, reached a speed of 511 km/h. Two attempts to beat his record have resulted in the death of the pilot.
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The easternmost part of Tennessee is closer to Canada than it is to Memphis.
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Before Fritz Haber figured out how to fix nitrogen directly from the atmosphere, the world was running out of fertilizer. If his discovery had never been made, the world population would be much, much lower today.
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Polydactyl cats have more than 5 toes on each paw. Ernest Hemingway kept polydactyl cats whose descendants now live in his former home on Key West.
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In 1932, the Australian government fought a war against emus but lost.
The funny thing is the guys who runs that organization claims it is all true, and seems to actually believe in it. Good thing our leader isn't joking around.
I wish that planes wouldn't have to fly and could speed along the ground at 600 miles per hour because that would be terrifying, but not as scary as hurtling towards terra firma from 6 miles above the earth.
To be fair, emus are dead hard. Think of a cross between samurai, Spartans, and Viking berserkers: that's the emu. Most Australians would rather go unarmed against a white pointer-saltwater croc alliance in 30 meters of murky water than arm themselves with a Kalashnikov and face an average emu.
If you don't believe me, ask yourself this: why has no unholy shark-croc alliance ever dared to face an emu?
Fritz Haber also pioneered the weaponisation of chlorine and other poisonous gasses. He was a staunch German patriot and his wife killed herself, possibly because of the despair she felt at the mass death such gasses caused.
Haber also invented an insecticide called "Zyklon A'. The Nazis would use a derivation of this gas, "Zyklon B", to murder people in their concentration camps. Haber was Jewish.
Kidnapping is taking someone against their will.
If you don't believe me, ask yourself this: why has no unholy shark-croc alliance ever dared to face an emu?
Haber also invented an insecticide called "Zyklon A'. The Nazis would use a derivation of this gas, "Zyklon B", to murder people in their concentration camps. Haber was Jewish.