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the reason bradford pear trees are everywhere in some areas of the eastern US is that they initially came out with a sterile tree, but folks complained that the branches were too weak and would break off in even a medium wind. so they went back to the drawing board and came up with a tougher tree - the problem was that it wasn't 100% sterile.
If Columbus poured an eight ounce glass of water into the ocean and that water mixed equally with all the water on earth and today you fill an eight ounce glass of water from your tap, there would be about 250 molecules of water from Columbus's original eight ounces in your glass.
The city I work in (and live very close to) has the coldest winters in the world for a city of over 600,000 people for the months of January and February.
"Lake" is also the name of a color (not just a body of water) and it is a shade of RED. It is an important pigment that comes from a New World insect called a Cochineal, and after Silver, it was the second most valuable export from the Americas back to Spain.
The first man-made structure that was teller than the Great Pyramid was the Lincoln Cathedral in England, about 4,000 years later.
I had never heard that before, and it is surprising that the Lincoln Cathedral is not better known for that distinction. Not everything named Lincoln, not even in America, is named after President Abraham Lincoln. For example, Lincoln County, Maine, and Lincoln's Sparrow, named by Audubon when discovered in Nova Scotia, when honest Abe was still walking through the snow barefoot.
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