Mister Smarty Pants Knows
By Mr. Smarty Pants, Fri., March 21, 1997
The "bang" you hear when a gun is fired is not the powder exploding. It's the bullet breaking the sound barrier as it leaves the muzzle.
The official name of the color of the Golden Gate Bridge is "international orange."
Brownsville, Texas once had the largest international airport in the U.S.; Charles Lindbergh flew the first airmail from Mexico City to Brownsville. In the early 1930s, Braniff Airlines established a Chicago-to-Brownsville route under the slogan: "From the Great Lakes to the Gulf."
You grow a couple of inches in space due to a lack of gravity.
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