Bye Bye Birdie
It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a UFO! Oh, wait. It's really just a bird. That's kind of disappointing...
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The More You Know
- Portland was named by a coin flip. Had the coin landed the other way, the city would be known as Boston, Oregon.
- A U.S. park ranger named Roy C. Sullivan held the record for being struck by lightning the most times, having been struck — and surviving — seven times between 1942 and 1977.
- There's a "floating rainforest" in the sea.
- It's a tradition in Ireland that if you donated a pint of blood, they give you a pint of Guinness to replace the iron.