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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

  3. 24 super wrong but brilliant test answers from the most ... - AOL

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    24 super wrong but brilliant test answers from the most creative students. Brittany Vanbibber. Updated August 14, 2015 at 9:36 AM. Back-to-school season is here! Before you kick off the school ...

  4. List of unsolved problems in mathematics - Wikipedia

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    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?

  5. What If? (book) - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. 50 Presidential Trivia Questions and Answers To Show Your ...

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    Answer: Martin Van Buren (Old Kinderhook) Want more great trivia? Check out 101 Trivia Questions for Kids, Movie Trivia and The Office Trivia. ... We put them to the test. Lighter Side.

  7. The Most Bizarrely-Named Cities in America - AOL

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    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 ...

  8. Double-slit experiment - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  9. James while John had had had had had had had had had had had ...

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    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 ...

  10. List of paradoxes - Wikipedia

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    Birthday paradox: In a random group of only 23 people, there is a better than 50/50 chance two of them have the same birthday. Borel's paradox: Conditional probability density functions are not invariant under coordinate transformations. Boy or Girl paradox: A two-child family has at least one boy.

  11. List of unusual units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    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.