Category: FYI

If you find yourself in a minefield, keep your eyes on your feet and do not move any farther. Look for spikes, detonators, wires, bumps, or discoloration in the ground. Avoid all of these and back up slowly in your own footsteps by walking backward. Do not turn around. If you find yourself in wet

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If you cut yourself during shaving, rinse the cut with cold water. Apply alum salts or talcum powder to stop the blood flow and apply toilet paper to the cut. Wait a few minutes and remove the paper after getting it wet. If you find yourself driving on blown tired, go straight and accelerate smoothly

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If you find yourself around a river filled with piranhas and needing to cross it because there’s no other way, do it at night because they are less active and walk or swim across quickly but quietly. Don’t step into the water with cuts and sores on your body. Don’t go into the water when

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If you get bit by a poisonous snake, which make it good to know what snakes are poisonous and which aren’t (you will have to research this on your own time), make sure you wash it with soap and water, keep the area lower than your heart, wrap above the bite to help slow the

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Visovac Monastery in Croatia is a place for young men who are preparing themselves for priesthood. Shah Jahan had the Taj Mahal built to honor his wife after her death in 1631. Lake Tana is the source of the Blue Nile in Ethiopia. Sugar Ray Robinson won the welterweight title in 1946 against Tommy Bell.

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Oak Ridge in Tennessee was the development base of nuclear weapons in the U.S. during the 1940s. Tallest building in Atlanta, Georgia is Bank of America Plaza at 55 stories and 1,023 feet tall. George Washington died in his Virginian home in 1799. Strilkivtsi, Ukraine was a hiding place for 38 Ukrainian Jews during WWII.

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The U.S. divorce rate was 5.3 per 1,000 population in 1981. Walt Disney died in 1966. Busiest airport in 2019 was Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta Intl. with 110,531,300 passengers. The largest tidal range is in Canada at Bay of Fundy where it reaches 53 feet. The Bosnian War lasted from 1992 to 1995. A Charlie Brown Christmas

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The Blue Forest in Belgium is covered with bluebells in the spring. Lac Assal is one of the saltiest bodies of water in the world. John Adams became the first U.S. president to reside in the White House. The first Godzilla film was in 1954. The Clock Museum in Austria has around 1000 clocks on

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Google Chrome had 70% of the worldwide web market in 2020. Sesame Street premiered in 1969. American Legion is the largest veterans service organization in the U.S. Benjamin Franklin invented the lightning rod around 1750. There are 14 villages in the small island of Niue. Around 19.5 million U.S. military veterans live worldwide in 2020.

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Filet mignon steaks are tender but not as flavorful as other steaks. Helen Skelton traveled 2,010 miles through Brazil by kayak. Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin were three world leaders during WWII. The Hobbit was first published in 1937 by J.R.R. Tolkien. A meteor is a chunk of material that plunges into Earth’s atmosphere, a meteoroid

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