Things You'll Only See In Russia

Tunneling To Alaska

Russians have been planning an underground tunnel to Alaska for years. It would be a two-way, 64-mile tunnel under the Bergin Strait. The project is called TKM-World Link. It'll take another 10-15 years to complete and is funded by Russia, the US, China, and Canada. 

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The More You Know

  • The odds of getting a royal flush are exactly 1 in 649,740.
  • The horse on the Wyoming license plate is named Steamboat.
  • A Boeing 747 airliner is made of over 6,000,000 separate parts.
  • The Nobel Committee declined to award the Nobel Peace Prize in 1948 because "there was no suitable living candidate." This was meant as tribute to Mahatma Gandhi, who was assassinated earlier that year without receiving the Prize.
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