Category: More You Know

Carl Albert as Speaker of the House would have been president if Nixon would have resigned before the confirmation of a new Vice President in 1973. Marie Curie fitted ambulances with X-ray equipment during WWI. Hakuna Matata means no worries for the rest of your days. Sahara Desert covers most of Libya. Madagascar is about

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The first U.S. Congress was from 1789–1791 but it wasn’t until the 66th hat there was a Minority Leader and 69th that there was both a Minority and Majority Leader in the Senate. The primary reason I did this was because this week Harry Reid died from Nevada. He served as the Majority Leader from

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Because I watched an episode on a show about a terroristic plot that was foiled, I decided to look up the best and worst subway systems in the world. I wasn’t surprised that NYC was almost always in the top, if not the best, and that LA was one of the worst especially since living

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I‘ve posted something similar to this about the top 10 counties in terms of size and landmass. I’m still mesmerized that the biggest city which is NYC has some of the smallest counties. Los Angeles is the second largest city but has the largest county. California has most of the largest counties with Arizona and

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List of the top 20 disasters by cost in billions based on 2021 inflation (source: Wikipedia) 1986 Chernobyl with radioactive contamination in Soviet Union cost 774 billion 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami with radioactive contamination in Japan cost 423 billion 1995 Great Hanshin earthquake in Japan cost 344 billion 2021 North American winter storm in

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Engineering disasters takes place all over the world. Infrastructure such as bridges, aeronautics such space shuttles, and vessels such as ships have all had moments of glory and failure. Whether it be the fault of the operator or a combination with the design, these are some of the worst disasters in the history of the

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Since Hollywood has ushered in the new best actor and actress to their movies, the older actors and actresses have often found a new home in television shows. This is a good and bad thing. Good in that TV has gotten better. Bad in that there is less variety in movies being made as well

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This is the list of the best paying jobs according to the U.S. News & World Report in 2021. These are the jobs where you need a lot of schooling and pay more than 100,000 dollars a year. The other jobs include dentists, petroleum engineers, IT managers, pilots, marketing managers, financial managers, lawyers, podiatrists, sales

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Here are the top countries people visit from around the world in 2019 according to World Atlas. Those on the list isn’t that surprising as they are countries that rake in a lot of money in terms of tourism (obviously pre-covid). Then, I will move onto the most visited cities in the U.S. This shouldn’t

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Many of the busiest 20 top airports are located all over the world. Think tourist cities like Beijing, Tokyo, New York City, Dubai, San Francisco and London. Here are the top 20 busiest airports in the U.S. 1 Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport 2 Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport 3 Denver International Airport 4 O’Hare International Airport 5

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