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A group of owls is called a parliament.
The O&H Danish Bakery in Racine, Wisconsin, makes 7,000 Kringles a day during the holiday season and has made landfall in all seven continents. A Kringle is Wisconsin’s State Pastry, originally hails from Northern Europe and is a sweet variation on a pretzel.
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Hearst Castle in San Simeon, California, was designed by female architect Julia Morgan. In 1919, she was hired by publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst to design a main building and guest houses for his ranch, but she ended up purchasing everything from Spanish antiquities to Icelandic moss to reindeer for the Castle’s zoo, which was once the world’s largest private zoo
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The building One Times Square was built in 1904 as the headquarters for the New York Times. It’s been home to the New Year’s Eve Ball Drop Celebration since 1907, when the first New Year’s Eve ball was made of iron and wood, one hundred 25-watt bulbs and weighed 700 pounds. Today’s ball is 12 feet in diameter and weighs almost six tons with 2,688 Waterford Crystal triangles bolted to 672 LED modules attached to the aluminum frame.
The solar system is huge, with the Sun at its center and planets, moons, asteroids, and comets orbiting it.
The Venus Flytrap is considered a Carnivorous plant and eat insects for nutrients.
Above a certain temperature, alligators only give birth to males
The real name for a hashtag is an octothorpe.
According to the New York Times, the Monterey Pop Festival in Monterey, California, was the first rock music festival.
One World Trade Center in Manhattan is the tallest building in the western hemisphere, at 1,776 feet.
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Neil Armstrong’s hair was sold in 2004 for $3,000.
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Wonder Bread was created in Indianapolis in 1921 at the Taggart Baking Company. The owner of Taggart went to the first race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, which was actually a hot air balloon race, and the view and “wonder” of the experience inspired the brand’s name and colorful circle design on its packaging.
Wearing a tie can reduce blood flow to the brain by 7.5 per cent. A study in 2018 found that wearing a necktie can reduce the blood flow to your brain by up to 7.5 per cent, which can make you feel dizzy, nauseous, and cause headaches. They can also increase the pressure in your eyes if on too tight and are great at carrying germs.
The tiny pocket in jeans was designed to store pocket watches
As Food52 reported, the San Francisco syrup company Torani is said to have invented the flavored latte in 1982. Its origin story alleges that the retired coffee industry veteran LC “Brandy” Brandenburg created a flavored latte out of steamed milk, espresso and Torani’s vanilla and orange syrups, which he dubbed “Fantasia.”
Encompassing 38 miles along the Atlantic Ocean and Chesapeake Bay coastlines, Virginia Beach claims the Guinness World Record as the “world’s largest pleasure beach.”
A brain freeze, medically known as sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia, occurs when cold hits the receptors in the meninges, the outer covering of the brain. The cold causes a contraction and then a dilation of arteries, triggering a rapid-onset headache.
People once ate arsenic to improve their skin.
Apollo 11 astronauts spent weeks in quarantine at Nasa HQ following their landmark trip to and from the moon, where they dined on a range of Stouffer’s entrées, sides and desserts.
As CNBC noted, more than 60% of Fortune 500 companies are incorporated in Delaware because of its favorable business climate, specifically its Court of Chancery, a designated court system designed only for handling corporate cases.
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Over sixty percent of the world’s lakes are located in Canada.
Horses and cows usually sleep standing up.
It's true. I've been posting some longer comments but the replies were all spammy.
He can change the parameters for this one as well. Just need to set that unworthy one word comments will disqualify the participant.
What kind of animal is Punxsutawney Phil
The first person processed at Ellis Island was a 15-year-old girl from Ireland.
You are right and I’m sorry but I will fix the notification spam this week if not today, see #951622
A group of hyenas is called a cackle.
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The deepest part of the ocean is approximately 35,876 feet down.
It's going to get worse before it gets better.
The world’s largest butterfly, Queen Alexandra’s birdwing, has a wingspan of around 10 inches.
Human teeth are the only part of the body that cannot heal themselves.
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A fear of long words is called Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.
As of December 2023, the most popular boy baby name of the year is Noah and the most popular girl baby name of the year is Olivia, based on names registered with BabyCenter.com
A cumulus cloud weighs an estimated 1.1 million pounds, according to the United States Geological Survey.
This sounds like capitulation.
You had a good run. Now its time to log off for a week
Flamingos are pink from the high amounts of beta-carotene in their diets.
The largest bowling alley in the world is in Japan and has 116 lanes.
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One word threads is an art. You just need to lower your time preference and observe them
The Terminator” script was sold for $1.
M&M’S Chocolate Candies were introduced in 1941, and one selling point is that they wouldn’t melt in warm weather. In 1950, a black “M” was added to the candy so consumers could tell the difference between the real deal and imitations. The "M" was changed to white in 1954.
According to Pollstar’s 40th anniversary edition in 2022, the top three touring acts by number of tickets sold in those 40 years of charting the live entertainment industry are U2, the Dave Matthews Band and The Rolling Stones, in that order.
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You can disable this option 'someone replies to someone who replied to me' in settings.
There are eight NFL teams currently without cheerleaders.
Flamingos are pink from the high amounts of beta-carotene in their diets.
To determine how far away a lightning storm is from you, National Geographic Kids says you can count the seconds between the flash and the crack and watch for the flash of lightning from a safe location. Time how many seconds elapse before you hear thunder. Divide the number of seconds by five and the answer is the approximate number of miles away.
@ek your well intentioned effort to drive engagement on SN has gotten out of control. My notifications have become completely inundated by utter nonsense one word, one character comments. It is all spam now. This is not improving the SN experience, it is ruining it.
I applaud your efforts in running this contest. I think next time if we do something similar the parameters for what will be accepted as a legitimate comment should be stricter.