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The new fastest helicopter on Earth can fly at 300 mph (482 km/h or 255 knots)? The Eurocoptor X3 is a hybrid helicopter with five blade main and tail rotors, as well as stubby wings that provide up to 80% of...
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261 years ago, in June of 1752, Benjamin Franklin flew a kite in a lightning storm, in continuation of his experiments with electricity? Wanting to prove that lightning was electricity, he attached an iron ring...
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Heineken proposed to solve the affordable housing problem by building houses out of their beer bottles? A beer bottle standing upright is, surprisingly, up to code, bearing 50 kg per square centimeter. In the...
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The biggest public transit infrastructure effort in the U.S. is almost completely invisible? 160 feet underground New York City, at a cost of $8.4 billion, the East Side Access project will connect the Long...
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A massive, mile-wide supercell tornado ripped through the suburbs of Oklahoma City, destroying homes, schools and other buildings? The tornado was on the ground for some 40 minutes, according to the National...