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- If a raisin is dropped into a glass of fresh champagne, it will float and sink over and over.
- From 1923 to 1969, Illinois had a law making American their official language[1].
- After Canada and Mexico, Russia is the nearest neighbor to the United States, via Alaska. In the middle of the Bering Strait, Russia’s Big Diomede Island and the U.S.’s Little Diomede Island are only two miles apart. “I can see Russia from my house.”
- The old statement “a broken clock is right at least twice a day” is meaningless if the clock is digital.
- The tool used in old shoe stores to measure foot size is called a Brannock Device.
- The eye muscle is the fastest reacting muscle of the whole body. It contracts in less than 1/100th of a second.
- The number googolplex cannot be written out since a googol of 0’s (zeros) cannot fit into the observable universe.
- Adding 10 inches to 6 millimeters equals exactly 26 centimeters (10 in + 6mm = 26cm).
- Tautonyms is the word for scientific names where the genus and species are the same.
- Taxi is spelled exactly the same in English, French, German, Swedish, Portuguese, and Dutch.
- Mexico uses the Spanish word alto on stop signs; Spain uses the word stop.
- Don’t ask a quantum physicist to define the time length for a jiffy. You might get a long answer.
