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Old 05-19-23, 05:12 AM   #2581
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The average American looks at eight houses before buying one.
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Old 05-19-23, 04:14 PM   #2582
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The first animals in space were fruit flies. The Americans launched them on V2 number 20 on 20 Feb 1947. They survived reentry.
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Old 05-20-23, 05:12 AM   #2583
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Right handed people, on average, live nine years longer than left handed people.
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Old 05-20-23, 01:02 PM   #2584
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The Soviet Union, inadvertently, helped the US develop satellite navigation.


A few hours after the launch of Sputnik 1 in 1957, Two American physicists, William Guier and George Weiffenbach, at Johns Hopkins discovered that by measuring the Doppler shift from the beeping satellite, it was possible to accurately locate the satellite.



The following year, they were tasked to reverse the analysis and locate a receiver on the Earth from a known satellite position. This they accomplished in 1958. In 1959 the US Navy's Transit program was developed. It became the first operational satellite navigation system in 1960 and helped targeting the Polaris SLBM... which was mostly targeting Soviet Union targets.



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Old 05-20-23, 01:35 PM   #2585
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People used to answer the phone by saying “ahoy” instead of “hello.”
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Old 05-20-23, 03:21 PM   #2586
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People used to answer the phone by saying “ahoy” instead of “hello.”

Well they have been doing that since comment 231.
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Old 05-20-23, 03:23 PM   #2587
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There is only one piece of the Sputnik 1 rocket/satellite left and the US has it!!!!


The metal arming key which prevented contact between batteries and transmitter prior to launch is on display at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum.




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Old 05-20-23, 06:36 PM   #2588
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On August 4 2015 Kermit and Miss Piggy broke up.
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Old 05-21-23, 01:14 AM   #2589
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On August 4 2015 Kermit and Miss Piggy broke up.
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Old 05-21-23, 04:12 AM   #2590
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The average American spends about 2.5 days a year looking for lost items.
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According to Guinness World records, the largest collection of picture frames is owned by Lara Khoury from the United Arab Emirates. As of October 2010, she had collected a whooping 2,214 empty frames since 1992.
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The colour orange is named after the fruit. Not the fruit named after the colour orange.
And what rhymes with orange? Door-hinge? Nah!
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Old 05-21-23, 10:57 AM   #2593
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Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
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In medieval times water was unsafe to drink in most of the world so they would drink mead instead of water. So everyone was always slightly drunk.
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The first commonly recognized horror film was The House of the Devil made in 1896


It had bats turning into people; hunchback dwarf assistants; and the hero using a large cross to vanquish the enemy. What's not to like?



Perhaps also the first vampire movie?
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