Category: More You Know

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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Elihu Root, Frank Kellogg, Cordell Hull, Al Gore, and Barack Obama all received the Nobel Peace Prize. Bea Arthur died in 2009 who played Dorothy on The Golden Girls. The smallest state in the U.S. is Rhode Island at 1,545 square miles. The first Euro coin was minted in France in 1998. Dark matter was

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Cinco de Mayo is the victory of Mexico at the battle with France. Rosalynn Carter became a deacon in 2006 in Georgia. AFIS was created in 1974 that helps identify victims and criminals. The largest truck stop in the U.S. is in Iowa. Tree of Life in Bahrain has existed over 400 years. East Timor

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The U.S. has become synonymous with high gun related deaths in total as well as gun ownership. However, the U.S. is basically in the middle range when you compare the top twenty countries with the highest gun deaths rates per 100,000 people in 2017 according to World Atlas. But when you factor in all gun

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The Empire State Building was made with 18,630 tons of limestone. Paestum is an ancient city in Italy that was abandoned during the Middle Ages. The world’s largest ATM is located in Pakistan. The lowest point of elevation in California is Death Valley. Dairy Queen was founded in 1940. The largest rock carving of an

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