The chicken was domesticated from a jungle-dwelling bird.
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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This article appears in March 21 • 1997 and March 21 • 1997 (Cover).