The Stories Behind These Abandoned Islands Will Freak You Out

A Sunny Settlement

The huge land became an English settlement to fight off the Spanish, and eventually a working plantation.

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The More You Know

  • The first American woman to go to medical school was admitted as a joke. Geneva Medical School thought it was joke when Elizabeth Blackwell applied to attend 1847. She graduated in 1849, started her own practice, and opened an infirmary for the poor.
  • Surfaces near the equator move much faster than those in other locations on Earth.
  • The odds of getting a royal flush are exactly 1 in 649,740.
  • A Scarlet Macaw can live up to 80 years.
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