The last country to attack the USA on its home soil was Great Britain.

The group that ran double-agents for Britain during WWII was known as the "Twenty Committee".

Because in Roman numerals twenty is a double cross.

The Chatham Islands east of New Zealand were colonised by Polynesians in the 16th century, the same century that Europeans started entering the Pacific

After leaving Africa more than 60,000 years ago and diverging into separate groups with wildly different histories, homo sapiens come together again and end up in roughly the same place at roughly the same time.

The word "slang" is slang, for shortened language.

The word SCUBA is an acronym for Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus.

EPCOT was supposed to be a city, not a theme park.

If you look on top of the engine of a Lamborghini, there is a little plaque that tells you the firing order of the cylinders.

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The original computer bug was a moth that flew into a mainframe and got itself caught between two relay contacts.

It was recorded in a log book by Grace Hopper on September 9th, 1947.

I had always wondered that.

A rich man living in California who'd grown up in South Africa ended up losing his entire fortune, went crazy, and proclaimed himself Emperor of the United States (and later Protector of Mexico).

No, not a prediction of Elon Musk's future, though the surface-level parallels are amusing. Emperor Joshua Abraham Norton I dealt in rice, made a bad gamble, began wearing a uniform, issuing proclamations, and even corresponding with foreign royals, and the citizens of San Francisco went along with it. He died homeless and penniless but his funeral was one of the most well-attended of the time.

The highest score in Snooker is 155 and not 147.

The ‘maximum' is generally considered to be 147, but a 155 is possible, although it requires exceptional circumstances. If a player comes to the table after a foul by his opponent and is left snookered on all red balls, he can then elect to use a coloured ball as another red, continuing on to pot all the other balls on table as normal.

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They tried that jazzing up with F1 by giving the drivers WWE style walk in theme songs and flashy lights and smoke and such. Suffice to say it lasted but one race before the fans collectively said 'No! Stop that!' and they reverted back to the norm.

Project Thor - An orbital weapon that drops telephone pole sized tungsten rods that fall at high velocity - giving it the destructive power of a nuclear bomb but with out the fallout.

Also named 'Rods from God'.

There's a great bit of NPC dialogue in Mass Effect 2 that's a commander talking to a bunch of random soldiers about kinetic bombardment on one of the space stations, and how important it is to aim REALLY REALLY REALLY carefully before you even think about firing cause if you miss that thing is just gonna keep going until it hits whatever poor planet happens to be in the way a thousand light years in that direction and completely obliterates an entire civilization out of nowhere cause some jagoff a thousand years ago couldn't hit the broad side of a planet.

'Rods from God'???

How did they not go for "Rod Damn" or "Wrath of Rod" or "The Power of Rod" or "Rod Almighty"????