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25 Interesting Facts about Alaska
01. The Adak National Forest in the Aleutian Islands, Alaska, is the smallest National Forest in America, with only 33 trees.
18 Top Secret Facts about Area 51
01. During the cold war, the workers at Area 51 would bring out crazy shaped planes made of cardboard every time a soviet spy satellite flew by.
50 Awesome Facts About Cities in USA – Part 3
01. When it snowed for the first recorded time in Miami in 1977 a meteorologist initially thought it was a coke-drop that had gone wrong, until realizing that the flakes were indeed snow.
50 Fascinating Facts about Smells and Odors
01. The smell of coffee reduces the stress caused by sleep deprivation and damage caused by stress.
50 Fascinating Facts about US Military
01. The US military developed special cold weather boots called Bunny Boots which feature a full inch of wool lining. Each boot weighs 1.5kg and they can be used in -58°C temperatures.
30 Spooky Facts about Caves From Around the World
01. The earliest known modern human fossils found outside of Africa were in Apidima Cave in Southern Greece. These fossils are somewhere between 170,000 and 210,000 years old.
50 Fascinating and Historical Facts About The 1600s
01. Since 1617, breaches of etiquette at Oxford University have been punished by making the offender drink up to four pints of beer in one go.
30 Interesting Facts about Egypt
01. The Great Sphinx of Giza is so old that its first restoration dates to 1400 B.C. when it was already a thousand years old.
50 Surprising Facts About American Companies and Their History – Part 2
01. Halliburton once tried to patent patenting.
50 Colorful Facts about Birds and their Behavior
01. A parrot named Einstein with a vocabulary of about 200 words once gave a TED talk.
25 Astonishing Facts about Prisoner of War – Part 2
01. A German POW named Georg Gaertner in the US escaped his New Mexico camp in 1945 and stayed on the run for 40 years, before giving himself up after confessing to his American wife.
30 Interesting Facts about Prisoner of War
01. Admiral James Stockdale was a POW in Vietnam who beat himself in the face with a stool to keep from being put on Vietnamese propaganda videos.
25 Ridiculous Things Sold on eBay
01. The town of Buford, Wyoming was sold on eBay for $900,000.
25 Fascinating Facts about Wives Behind Popular Men
01. During the Watergate scandal, Martha Mitchell was kidnapped, beaten and forcibly sedated by her husband’s security detail to keep her from speaking to reporters.