Busting Popular Myths That You Probably Thought Were Facts

Dropping a Penny from the Empire State Building

The story has it that if you drop a penny from the top of the Empire State Building you could kill someone. That’s not true. It could definitely hurt someone, but it wouldn’t kill them. Plus, the penny probably wouldn’t even make it to the bottom since the building is super staggered.

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The More You Know

  • The Eiffel Tower was inaugurated the same year Nintendo was founded.
  • 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.
  • A full jumbo jet tank has enough fuel to drive a car around the world four times.
  • Almost all chickens eaten today come from the winner of the 1948 'Chicken of Tomorrow' Contest whose genetics now dominate poultry farms worldwide.
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