The Base
In 1954, President Eisenhower authorized the development of a top-secret project called Project Aquatone. The goal was to research and build a high altitude flying recon plane.
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The More You Know
- A German and British aeroplane shot each other down in Norway during WWII. The crew met and helped each other survive. Two of them later visited each other many years after the war was over as friends.
- Dueling is legal in Paraguay, as long as both parties have been registered as blood donors.
- 27,000 tress are cut down every day to become toilet paper.
- “Digging a hole to China” is theoretically possible if you start in Argentina.