Category: More You Know

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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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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