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The closest point in the U.S. to Africa is Quoddy Head State Park in Maine, which is 3,153 miles away from Safi Province, Morocco.
After a farmer failed to properly behead a chicken because he missed the jugular vein, the bird lived for 18 months. Christened Mike the Headless Chicken, it survived on a mixture of milk and water, fed into his exposed esophagus via an eyedropper. The farmer turned Mike into a sideshow attraction, charging 25 cents admission. For a while, Mike earned $4,500 per month, or $47,500 today.
Germany's Amphicar was an amphibious car mass-produced for sale to the public starting in 1961. One of LBJ's aides recalled: "We reached a steep incline at the edge of the lake and the car started rolling rapidly toward the water. The president shouted, ‘The brakes don’t work! The brakes won’t hold! We’re going in! We’re going under!’”
Many of these end up on dinner tables, as camel meat is a popular foodstuff there. Lately, camel exports from Somalia have resulted in the spread of the harmful MERS virus.
Diamond "hailstones" form on Saturn and Jupiter when "lightning storms turn methane into soot (carbon) which as it falls hardens into chunks of graphite and then diamond," according to the BBC. The largest diamonds are purportedly about one centimeter in diameter. In one interesting theory laid out in a book called Alien Seas, robotic "mining ships" could be sent to these planets to retrieve the diamonds and bring them back to earth.
If you fly out of Coleman A. Young International Airport, you'll cross over the town of Windsor, Ontario, before re-entering U.S. airspace.
In what sounds like a kind of great life, three-toed sloths descend from their leafy canopies anywhere from once a week to once every three weeks, cross the street, dig a hole, poop in it, cover it with leaves and return home. (Two-toed sloths, however, tend to poop at home.)
Shamans in San Juan Chamula, Mexico, believe Coke heals worshipers. (Cola induces burping, which shamans believe releases evil from the soul.) Writes MexicoRetold.com, "Every group involved in ritual practice had glass bottles of Coke with them. Generally we saw people drink it in shot glasses, almost as if they were taking a medicine."
Pluto's surface area is about 16.7x106 km squared, while the surface area of Russia: 17.1x106 km squared. Pluto's diameter is 2,390 km across, or approximately the distance between Salt Lake City and Chicago.
As the main ship of the world's largest landlocked country, the tugboat was "hauled in parts across the steppes, assembled on a beach and launched in 1938." Only one of the men reportedly knew how to swim. Watch a documentary on the Mongolian Navy here.