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Florida has the lowest highest elevation in the US.

 

The city of Key West, FL is the only city in the continental U.S. to never experience a freeze.

 

Ft. lauderdale, FL is the only place in continental U.S. to be classified as a rainforest climate.

 

Bananas trees aren't exactly trees per say but actually they're perennial herbs.

 

The first Honda to ever bear the "Vtec" engine wasn't the NSX but instead was the Honda Integra XSi.

 

The Mazda 787b racecar in the 24 hours of LeMans is the only Japanese automaker to ever win LeMans.

 

It snows in Hawaii but constituting only to the highest volcanic peaks during the winter.

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light from the sun takes 5 hours to reach pluto

 

the milky way is roughly 100,000 light years across, meaning it would take 100,000 years to travel across it end to end at the speed of light.

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Lenin (Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov) was actually entitled to be considered a minor noble in the Russian Empire... Why?

 

Well, his father (Ilya Ulianov) was a public servant in the region of Simbirsk (today it's called "Ulyanovsk"), who for his years of service earned the Order of St. Vladimir on the 3rd Degree... prior to 1900, all degrees of said order bestowed hereditary nobility, while after 1900, it was only from the 3rd...

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The factory originally was not a house of manufacture (a manufactories in this case) but were houses of combined merchants or factors on foreign soil (in the case of European merchants operating over seas); the head of which were called the Chief Factor. The factory of old thus served not just as a glorified trading post but most often in the colonial sense were the seats of civil administration, warehousing, civil defense, maritime navigation coordination, market, and other similar functions.

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Most people have a tendency to view things above and tilted at an angle, and rarely from above or straight ahead.

 

Reading from a computer screen instead of a book or even a Kindle is a bit more tiring because of how the light reflects to you when you read it. 

 

Your most vivid memories tend to be the ones that are the most incorrect.

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People are just too scared to see changes in their daily lives o~o since they are soooo comfortable with it,that they are willing to go all savage if things are different to them!!! :=:

People are just too scared to see changes in their daily lives o~o since they are soooo comfortable with it,that they are willing to go all savage if things are different to them!!! :=:

That's a perception, not a fact.

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New York State was ruled up until the mid-19th century as essentially a defacto feudal state under the patroons, a remnant of aristocratic Dutch rule that presided in the region since the Dutch colonized the region and established New Amsterdam.

 

The fall of the patroonships occurred when the tenant farmers of the massive estates basically rebelled and refused to pay their rent and formed political opposition in local government to the patroon families.

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Birds can't taste spicy food. The natural defenses of peppers are useless against them (and of limited usefulness against creatures that sometimes enjoy spiciness)!

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The human body has some reflexes that, in a way, allow the spinal cord to briefly control a limb in lieu of the brain. It takes slightly longer for a message to reach the brain than it does for a message to reach the spinal cord; in case of an extreme emergency, time is of the essence, so basically your central nervous system buys you a tiny bit of time by stopping the message at your spine rather than your brain.

For example, if you reach out and touch a hot pan on a stove, once the pain signal has traveled up the nerves from your hand to your spine, your central nervous system automatically causes you to recoil.

This is why your doctor tests your reflexes by tapping you on the knee with a little mallet thingy--if something about the reflex is abnormal, that could be a sign of damage to the central nervous system.

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Clenching your fists pumps blood in your body and simulates your brain, making you far more likely to remember things you might've forgotten. 

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 Anime specifically refers to Japanese commercial animation. Anime is different from conventional animation due to the fact that Japanese creators were never bound by the 20th-century convention that animation was something solely for children. Anime is a broad medium that ranges from the purely innocent to the pornographic. Some of it fetishizes young girls. In Japan the manga, anime, video game, television and media industries are all interrelated. Many popular manga characters find their way into video games and anime DVDs.

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