The Outer Banks of North Carolina are moving toward the east coast at about a foot a year the last 100 years.
(The Great Courses: The National Parks)
The Outer Banks of North Carolina are moving toward the east coast at about a foot a year the last 100 years.
(The Great Courses: The National Parks)
If you thought that it was hard for ships to hit other ships with their guns while at sea you would be right. In WW1 the average shot to hit ratio was about 5%.
(Book – Castles of Steel : Robert K. Massie
Mount Rainier is the most Glaciated mountain in the United States south of Alaska.
(The Great Courses – Geology National Parks)
The Sumatra Earthquake in 2004 slowed the earths rotation by 2.86 milliseconds.
(The Great Courses – Paleontology)
Crater Lake in Oregon is the deepest lake in the United States and the 9th deepest in the world.
(The Great Courses – Geology of National Parks)
Tic tac toe has 255,168 possible games. Checkers has 500 billion billion games. Chess has 10**120 games…that is 10 followed by 120 zeros.
(The Great Courses – Paleontology)
By knowing the size and foot strides of dinosaurs it appears that the fastest dinosaurs were about 35 mph.
(The Great Courses – Paleontology)
All Border Collies come from a single dog. The breed was specifically bred to herd sheep in Northern England.
(The Great Courses – Paleontology)
The Anglo-Portuguese alliance is the oldest in the world. It was first signed in 1376. It has reaffirmed in 1386, 1643, 1654, 1660, 1703, 1815, 1899, 1904 and 1914.
(Book – Napoleon: A Life – Andrew Roberts)
Dogs have the greatest genetic diversity of any mammal. This is due to the breeding done by humans over the years.
(The Great Courses – Redefining Reality: The Intellectual Implications of Modern Science)