Center for Disease
It was a Typhoid hospital, venereal disease hospital, rehab center, veteran housing, and finally a bird sanctuary.
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The Stories Behind These Abandoned Islands Will Freak You Out
The More You Know
- Where the Wild Things Are was supposed to have been about horses—but the illustrator couldn't draw them.
- Commercial flights were allowed to fly any course to their destination and would often detour over points of interest. This ended in 1956 when two planes crashed mid-flight over the Grand Canyon.
- A Boeing 747 airliner is made of over 6,000,000 separate parts.
- Lightning can heat the air it passes through to 50,000 degrees.