Category: FYI

The largest countries include China, India, United States, Indonesia, and Pakistan. The Trift Bridge in the Swiss Alps is 330 feet high or 100 meters from the valley floor. Thomas Edison’s concrete homes were a failure in the early 1900s. Sparky the dalmatian is the mascot of the National Fire Protection Association. The tallest five

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The Seacrest Wolf Preserve houses gray and Arctic wolves in the U.S. Cal Ripken Jr. broke Lou Gehrig’s consecutive game record in 1995. ESPN first aired in 1979. Some of the top beef producing nations include U.S., China, and India. Singer Amy Winehouse died in 2011. Grover Cleveland made Labor Day a national holiday in

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Jim Henson grew up in Mississippi, the creator of Kermit the Frog, and was born in 1936. Jones Bar-B-Q Diner in Arkansas has been operating since 1910 which is in their home. One of the tallest geoglyphs called Atacama Giant is in Huara, Chile and stands 300 feet or 86 meters tall. The Nuuk Center

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Ray Chapman became the first baseball player to die from getting hit in the head in 1920. High Trestle Trail in Iowa used to be a railroad can only be crossed on foot, bicycle or horseback. The next solar eclipse is on April 8, 2024. There are 63 National Parks in the U.S. New Hampshire

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Trilobites went extinct around 250 million years ago. The Louvre opened as a public museum in 1793 in Paris, France. LED stands for light-emitting diode. Hello in Arabic is salam. The uranium and plutonium bombs dropped by the U.S. killed around 200,000 Japanese people in 1945. Alfred Hitchcock was born in 1899 and died in

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Albert, Samuel, Harry, and Jack Warner created Warner Brothers in 1913. 175,000 people live in the Himalaya Mountains. Leewenhock is the microbiologist who first observed protozoa in 1670s. Lucille Ball was born in 1911 and died in 1989. San Marino has about 33,000 people in this small European country. The pyramid of Djoser in Egypt

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The oldest committee in the U.S. Congress is the House Committee. Chou-fleur is cauliflower in French. Anglo-Nepalese War was from 1814 to 1816. J. Crew brand was started in 1983. The first Bugs Bunny cartoon debuted in 1940. The Twin Sisters in Washington state were formed around 12,000 to 15,000 years ago. The highest temperature

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The Liebian International Building has an artificial waterfall that is 350 feet or 107 meters. Some of the longest running Broadway shows are The Phantom of the Opera, The Lion King, and Wicked. James Baldwin died in 1987. Johan Isak Turi Oskal created a reindeer camp to protect them from climate change and predators. The

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The writer, E.B. White, died in 1985. Sonia Sotomayor is the first Latina on the U.S. Supreme Court. The largest city in Canada is Toronto in Ontario province. John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died on July 4th in 1826. Arthur Ashe was the first black tennis player to win Wimbledon in 1975. The Fujita Scale

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CNN had their first broadcasting in 1980. Edward H. White II was the first American to walk in space in 1965. Judy Garland was 47 when she died. The highest mountain peak in Africa is Kilimanjaro in Tanzania and is 19,341 feet tall. The SAT or Scholastic Aptitude Test was first used in 1926. Internet

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Volcanic rock tower called Great Dog Peak is 1,266 feet or 386 meters tall in Central Africa. Senkwekwe Mountain Gorilla Center was established in 2009. Hello Kitty was created in 1974. Mount Rushmore was carved in 1930, 1936, 1937, and 1939. John DeLorean only produced one car design and was used in Back to the

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Female bats give birth upside-down. Nouns, adjectives, and adverbs are all modifiers in a sentence. Huasca de Ocampo in Mexico, Giant’s Causeway in Ireland, and Devils Postpile in California USA are rock column formations from volcanic lava that cooled. George Armstrong Custer was a Brigadier General at age 23. Russell Wattenberg founded a bookstore in

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