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by
Jordan Moore
The US Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956 was the start of the Interstate Highway system. Although the system was originally conceived as a way to move military equipment across the country, it was immediately available for civilian use.
For Americans, the chance of being killed in a plane crash is about one in 11 million, while for a car crash it’s one in 5,000.
~2200 times difference.
Car: 1 in 5,000
Train: 1 in 243,756
Plane: 1 in 11,000,000
the chance of dying as a passenger on a train is one in 243,756.
In late medieval and early modern Europe, some boys were castrated on purpose to give them the singing voice of a soprano. These unfortunate eunuchs (remember?) were called castrato.
The oldest known fishhooks were discovered in Sakitari Cave in Okinawa, Japan. The hooks are dated to the “Upper Paleolithic Period,” from about 22,380 to 22,770 years old.
Modern Europeans and Asians have 1% to 4% Neanderthal DNA on average.
atlatl
knapping
Neanderthals had larger braincases on average than modern humans.
Neanderthal women had longer gestation periods.
Homo floresiensis
people, who lived until about 50,000 years ago, were only about 3’7” tall!
The oldest known musical instruments are several flutes discovered in caves in Germany that are dated 43,000 to 35,000 years ago.
A “megalopolis” is an urban region where major metropolitan areas have overlapped each other. Bosnywash (Boston, New York, and Washington) is the best example in the US.
“Ekistics” is the study of human settlements,
