The Inspiration for 'Stranger Things' Came from an Unsolved Government Conspiracy

Secrets Kept are Weapons Wasted

A man named Laborer Gene Bowman was paid $1.35 an hour to work on the project in 1951. He released a statement about the project when he was approached by reporters after he was discharged from the job in the early 1950s. He stated, “They just said they were building a tunnel. Wasn’t nobody interested in what they were doing...”

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The More You Know

  • Great white sharks are so scared of killer whales that they'll avoid an area for up to a year after spotting one.
  • The sun and moon appear to be the same size in the sky because of an astonishing coincidence: the moon is 400 times smaller but 400 times closer.
  • The glow around the moon is called a "broch."
  • Pizza only became popular in the United States after American troops occupying Italy during World War 2 became hooked on it and then popularized it back home.
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