Alcatraz
Alcatraz Island in San Francisco was home to one of the most famous federal prisons in American history. Today, you can tour the old prison with a quick ferry boat trip across the bay.
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The More You Know
- Where the Wild Things Are was supposed to have been about horses—but the illustrator couldn't draw them.
- Coca-Cola once bought all the website URLs that can be read as ahh, all the way up to 62 h’s.
- Fear of the number 13 is called triskaidekaphobia.
- In 1945, Dwight D. Eisenhower predicted that people would try to dispel the holocaust as a falsehood, and ordered all possible photographs taken of the Nazi crimes to hinder any such attempts.