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• Glacial ice four times the height of the Empire State Building carved out the Hudson River. (151)
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• Nagycenk, a town in Hungary, has an alley of lime trees more than 1.5 miles long. (133)
• On a diagram of the solar system to scale, with Earth reduced to about the diameter of a pea, Jupiter would be over a thousand feet away and Pluto would be a mile and a half distant (and about the size of a bacterium, so you wouldn't be able to see it anyway). (132)
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• The image above is called a fire tornado, otherwise known as a firenado or a fire devil. Fire tornados occur when intense heat and turbulent wind combine to form a whirling core. Fire tornados can be up to 1000 feet tall, and occur multiple times per year in the United States.  (123)
• A second, ten years younger Mona Lisa has been unveiled. (120)
• Eating the wrong part of a pufferfish has a 60% fatality rate. That's because the puffer fish is packed with tetrodotoxin, one of the most powerful neurotoxins. The poison blocks sodium from firing neurons correctly causing the brain to cease function. (118)
• Josh Klinghoffer was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with the Red Hot Chili Peppers on April 14, 2012, becoming the Hall of Fame's youngest-ever inductee. (118)
• Cocoa was introduced to Europe in 1527 by Spanish conquistadors and was considered an aphrodisiac. It was commonly consumed in liquid form until J. S. Fry & Sons created the first chocolate bar in 1847. (118)
• In 1893, J.P. Morgan and the Rothschild family bailed out the U.S. Treasury with 3.5 millions ounces of gold. (117)
• The fungus shown above is called yartsa gunbu. Yartsa comes into the world by infecting ghost moth larva in the hills of Tibet. The fungus devours the body of the larva and a brown stalk begins to grow out of the larva's head. Yartsa been perscribed to treat back pain, fatigue, reduce cholestorol, improve eyesight, even treat diseases such as tuberculosis and asthma. Considering the fungus' extreme medicinal value, a pound of quality yartsa can go for about $50,000 USD. (115)
• in 1881, Alexander Graham Bell invented an electromagnetic device called an induction balance to try and locate a bullet lodged in President Garfield after an assassination attempt. (114)
• In 2018, NASA will launch the James Webb Space Telescope with mirrors seven times larger than the Hubble. (113)
• Macaque monkeys are 93% genetically similar to humans. Mice are 80% similar and fruit flies are 60% similar. (113)