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The aptly named test site for the world's first and only nuclear-powered rocket engines. Jerimoth Hill: The highest natural point in Rhode Island. For years, one of the toughest highpoints in the U.S. to scale, not because of its 812-foot (247 m) height, but because of an angry old man who lived nearby. Just Room Enough Island
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions is a 2014 non-fiction book by Randall Munroe in which the author answers hypothetical science questions sent to him by readers of his webcomic, xkcd. The book contains a selection of questions and answers originally published on his blog What If?, along with several new ones.
Do any odd weird numbers exist? Do any (2, 5)-perfect numbers exist? Do any Taxicab(5, 2, n) exist for n > 1? Is there a covering system with odd distinct moduli? Is a normal number (i.e., is each digit 0–9 equally frequent)? Are all irrational algebraic numbers normal? Is 10 a solitary number?
Colon, Michigan. The official story claims that this town was named after a city in Panama, but the fact that Michigan is home to places like “Brown City,” “Flushing” and “Colon ...
In modern physics, the double-slit experiment demonstrates that light and matter can satisfy the seemingly incongruous classical definitions for both waves and particles. This ambiguity is considered evidence for the fundamentally probabilistic nature of quantum mechanics. This type of experiment was first performed by Thomas Young in 1801, as ...
Unfortunate Trends. This last decade has undoubtedly given rise to all manners of unexpected, and honestly, occasionally, unfortunate trends. The digital worlds of places like TikTok have ...
7. Snake Milker. If you are not someone who scares easily or is risk-averse, snake milking may be a career path for you. This job requires the snake milker to collect the venom of poisonous snakes ...
The sentence can be given as a grammatical puzzle or an item on a test, for which one must find the proper punctuation to give it meaning. Hans Reichenbach used a similar sentence ("John where Jack had...") in his 1947 book Elements of Symbolic Logic as an exercise for the reader, to illustrate the different levels of language, namely object ...
A place in Kentucky. Also quite close to the similarly weird named places of Mud Lick and Flippin. Gun Barrel City, Texas (Cowboy voice) This here's a city in Henderson County, Texas. Only in Texas, pard'ner. Gunn Point, Northern Territory: Thanks to the firearm laws, you will not be shot here. Gunskirchen
Horizontal pitch. Horizontal pitch (HP) is a unit of length defined by the Eurocard printed circuit board standard used to measure the horizontal width of rack mounted electronic equipment, similar to the rack unit (U) used to measure vertical heights of rack mounted equipment. One HP is 0.2 inches (1/5") or 5.08 millimetres wide.