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The US Interstate Highway system is also named after which president?
It is also know as the Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways
How many months did it take to travel the Oregon Trail?
4 to 5 months
How many species of fish are there?
30,000
In what famous group of scrolls did the oldest treasure map get discovered?
Dead Sea Scrolls. 50 and 100 AD! The Copper Scroll has a list of 63 locations with detailed instructions on how to recover buried treasures of precious gold and silver!
This liquid produced by the body was used as a teeth whitening method during the Roman times.
Urine was such a popular commodity that people collected it from public urinals; there was even a tax to pay for those who profited from the sale of this golden liquid. Many of urine’s uses were nonmedical, such as the production of gunpowder or to soften leather.
One less savory use for urine, however, was as a tooth whitener. The ammonia allegedly helps clear teeth of their stains
How many lanes wide if the widest road in the US?
26 lanes. Interstate 10, also known as the Katy Freeway, in Houston, Texas. It has a total of 26 lanes and carries an average of 219,000 vehicles per day.
What state was Ezra Meeker born in?
Ohio native Ezra Meeker eventually made the trek a half-dozen times using nearly every available means of conveyance. The unusual odyssey began in 1906, when the 76-year-old jumped behind the reins of a covered wagon and retraced the steps of his original pioneer journey from 54 years before. Meeker was concerned that the legacy of the Oregon Trail was being forgotten, so he made frequent stops to give lectures on its history and install homemade “Meeker Markers” at pioneer landmarks. The trip made him a national celebrity. Crowds gathered to mark his arrival in major cities, and he eventually piloted his wagon all the way to Washington, D.C. for a meeting with President Theodore Roosevelt. Meeker went on to journey the Oregon Trail several more times by wagon, train and automobile. His final crossing came at age 94, when he made the trip in a biplane flown by famed pilot Oakley Kelly.
In 1984 by an 8 year old boy from Buffalo, New York but different variations of Gofish had been played even before that in China.
How many tone of coins were discovered in the largest monetary treasure haul found was on a wreck?
17 tons worth 500 million.
What is the only bone in the human body not connected to another bone?
Hyoid
How many miles long is the National Highway System?
160,000 miles.
What was the average age of a pioneer wife?
The average age of the pioneer wife was 20-22 and the average of the pioneer male was 34-44
The Salema Porgy gives a whole new meaning of fishing trip. Which ancient civilization used the fish to invoke vivid, LSD-like hallucinations.
Romans
In 1989 an amature treasure hunter was metal detecting in Mexico when he excavated the massive, solid-gold nugget, it measured 10¾ inches high by 7¼ inches wide. Holding it in his hands, the boot-shaped gem weighed more than 26 pounds. How much did he sell the gold nugget for?
$30,000 (worth $180,000) the gold value today is 1.1 million. 2008, the Boot of Cortez sold at auction for $1,553,500.
In what year could cocaine no longer be sold as medicine?
In 1884, an Austrian ophthalmologist, Carl Koller, discovered that a few drops of cocaine solution put on a patient’s cornea acted as a topical anesthetic. It made the eye immobile and de-sensitized to pain, and caused less bleeding at the site of incision—making eye surgery much less risky.
Marketed as a treatment for toothaches, depression, sinusitis, lethargy, alcoholism, and impotence, cocaine was soon being sold as a tonic, lozenge, powder and even used in cigarettes. It even appeared in Sears Roebuck catalogues. Popular home remedies, such as Allen’s Cocaine Tablets, could be purchased for just 50 cents a box and offered relief for everything from hay fever, catarrh, throat troubles, nervousness, headaches, and sleeplessness.
By 1902, there were an estimated 200,000 cocaine addicts in the U.S. alone. In 1914, the Harrison Narcotic Act outlawed the production, importation, and distribution of cocaine.
What was the estimated time needed to finish the highway system from start to finish?
12 years. The initial cost estimate for the system was $25 billion over 12 years; it ended up costing $114 billion (equivalent to $425 billion in 2006 or $618 billion in 2023) and took 35 years.
Name the seven states the Oregon trail passes through.
Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington
How many pounds of sand can a Chlorurus gibbus parrotfish produce in its life? (5lb fish)
14,000 lbs (2000 lbs a year for 7 years). The beaches of islands like Hawaii and the Maldives are roughly 80% sand that has been pooped out by the fish.
What is Blackbeard's actual name?
Edward Teach
This illegal drug was the safe non-addictive replacement for morphine.
Heroin-laced aspirin in 1898, which they marketed towards children suffering from sore throats, coughs, and cold. Some bottles depicted children eagerly reaching for the medicine, with moms giving their sick kids heroin on a spoon.
1.06 miles – I-375, Michigan. The nation’s (current) shortest signed interstate.
What percentage of deaths on the Oregon trail were due to natives?
2% roughly 400 people were killed of the 20,000 which died.
How much does it cost to buy the most expensive aquarium fish?
$400,000 for a Platinum Asian Arowana
Who was the wealthiest pirate of all time?
Black Sam" and "Black Bellamy," captain Samuel Bellamy. taking ownership of 53 ships and ruling over the Oceans for two years. 140 million.
What was the whale hotel?
a hotel in Australia where you could go for rheumatoid arthritis. In this treatment, whenever a nearby whale died, patients could be rowed to the whale. Then, the whale would be cut up, and a narrow hole made in the body. The patient would then lay down in the carcass for around two hours. This process allegedly relieved soreness and inflammation, and this may be the best part: the treatment was reported to be discovered by, “a drunken man, who was staggering along the beach near the whaling station at Twofold Bay, and who, seeing a dead whale cut open, took a header into the decomposing blubber