Record-Breaking PR Stunt Ends in Citywide Chaos

The Gates of Hell

In 1971, while searching for an oil field site in Turkmenistan, Soviet engineers came across a natural gas field. Concerned about the release of poisonous gases into nearby villages, the engineers decided to burn off the gas. They expected the process to take no longer than a few weeks, but the gas has continued to burn for over four decades with no end in sight.

The More You Know

North Korea and Cuba are the only places you can't buy Coca-Cola.
The first American woman to go to medical school was admitted as a joke. Geneva Medical School thought it was joke when Elizabeth Blackwell applied to attend 1847. She graduated in 1849, started her own practice, and opened an infirmary for the poor.
There are more twins now than ever before.
The sun and moon appear to be the same size in the sky because of an astonishing coincidence: the moon is 400 times smaller but 400 times closer.

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