Rocky Jones, Space Ranger was a science fiction TV show first broadcast in 1954.

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In August 1883 a devistating volcanic eruption destroyed most of the island of Krakatau and triggered a tsunami that claimed around 33,000 lives.

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Despite the title of the movie, Krakatau is west of Java.

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*maybe read the map upside down* tee hee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Indonesia is the world's largest archipelago with almost 14,000 islands stretching 3100 miles (5000 km) between the Indian and Pacific oceans.

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(flips map: you're right!) LOL!


Treeline in the Colorado Rockies can vary from around 9000 to 12000+ feet.

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Both Frankenstein and Dracula indirectly owe their creation to the Tambora eruption of 1815, the largest eruption in modern history.

The eruption sent billions of tons of sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere, which blocked out the Sun and lowered surface temperatures, causing 1816 to become the "year without a summer". In that year, rain and snow fell in mountainous areas in June, and the Sun was hardly seen at all. It was during one such rainstorm that Mary Shelley, Doctor John Polidori, Lord Byron, and Percy Shelley, trapped indoors on a holiday to Switzerland, decided to hold a ghost-story competition. Byron and Percy never completed theirs. Mary and Polidori did. Mary's became Frankenstein; Polidori's became a pulp novella called The Vampyre. Dispensing with the rat-like, plague ridden Nosferatu of old, Polidori made his vampire, Lord Ruthven (closely modeled on Lord Byron, who was something of a charming, seductive psychopath) an aristocratic, nattily-dressed antihero. This became the standard depiction for vampires in literature in the 19th century, including Dracula

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very interesting

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A 42-gallon barrel of oil yields ~20 gallons of gasoline.

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The Great Hungarian Plain (Alfold) stretches south from Budapest to the borders of Croatia and Serbia and east to the Ukraine and Romania. It covers an area of 20,000 sq miles (51,800 sq km) and is almost completely flat.


wonder if it is too late to post this answer on the geography quiz as it is bigger!

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After their first year of life, Oregon (Pink) shrimp change from male to female.

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We are living during the Phanerozoic* eon.

* "abundant life" (~600 million years ago to the present)

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William Gilbert designed the versorium, a device that detected the presence of statically charged objects.

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Perception is what happens between the senses and consciousness. Reality is what happened before that. If you think the two are equivalent, you've never heard of Von Claustwicz, Sun Tsu, or street magicians.

Formal Logical Fallacy List

The Tibetan plateau is the highest grassland in the world

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Wild yaks (Tibetan: drong) can weigh up to 1,200 kg (2,400 lb).

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Perception isn't reality. It's merely an abstraction thereof, and quite often, not a very good one at that.

Perception is what happens between the senses and consciousness. Reality is what happened before that. If you think the two are equivalent, you've never heard of Von Claustwicz, Sun Tsu, or street magicians.

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In four dimensions, you cannot tie knots in strings (you can move the loops in the fourth dimension so that it all reverts to the unknotted string). However, you can tie knots with two-dimensional surfaces.

And related to this (and since Houdini knew this fact)--Harry Houdini proposed that one could prove the existence of a fourth dimension by producing a pair of linked rings, with no evidence of cutting and rejoining, each ring made from a different type of wood. (he was wrong--it could be done with grafting, I think) since in four dimensions you can link and unlink rings without breaking them for the same reason there are no true knots of strings.

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Most "brick" houses are actually wood-frame houses with a brick veneer.

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A group of 150 Welsh settlers arrived in Patagonia on July 28, 1865 seeking a new life away from cultural and religious oppression in the UK. Today the area has one of the largest Welsh populations outside Wales.

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Patagonia, Inc. was founded in 1972 and is a major contributor to environmental groups.

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"Good stuff, Maynard!" , particularly their line of Stand Up Shorts.

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Dr. Laura has a black-belt in karate. (Bruce Lee-inspired!)

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The phrase "open sesame" from 1001 Nights is believed to have been inspired by the fact that sesame pods bust open at the slightest touch when ripe, releasing hundreds of seeds.

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