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Richard Ira "Dick" Bong (September 24, 1920 – August 6, 1945) is the United States' highest-scoring air ace, having shot down at least 40 Japanese aircraft during World War II. He was a fighter pilot in the U.S. Army Air Forces (USAAF) and a recipient of the Medal of Honor.
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He is America's best ace and the inspiration of the famous "Bong Recreation Area" in Wisconsin.
The five-second rule is a popular polite fiction regarding the eating of food that has fallen to the floor or ground. The origins of the rule are unknown. The substance of the rule is that if food falls on the ground, it may be safely eaten as long as it is picked up within 5 seconds.
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This timeless classic has been uttered by mainly, but hardly ever understood by any. Is there any scientific value to it?
A fata morgana, Italian translation of Morgan le Fay, the fairy shapeshifting half-sister of King Arthur, is a mirage, an optical phenomenon which results from a temperature inversion.
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It's not your run-of-the-mill desert mirage, but actually a "Superior Mirage" that's been mystifying people for centuries.
Frank Woodruff Buckles (born February 1, 1901) is, at age 108, the last identified living American veteran of World War I.[1] He currently lives in Charles Town, West Virginia.
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Any person that can live through more than 100 years and two world wars deserves a little praise.
Colonel-in-Chief Sir Nils Olav is a King Penguin living in Edinburgh Zoo, Scotland. He is the mascot and Colonel-in-Chief of the Norwegian King's Guard. Nils was visited by the Norwegian King's Guard on the 15 August 2008 and awarded a knighthood. The honour was approved by the king of Norway, King Harald V. During the ceremony a crowd of several hundred people joined the 130 guardsmen at the zoo to hear a citation from King Harald the Fifth of Norway read out, which described Nils as a penguin "in every way qualified to receive the honour and dignity of knighthood".
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As the first non human Knight, Colonel, Major, Sergeant, and Corporal ... this penguin has repeatedly torn down specian prejudices in the Norweign Military.
Quick Summary
This list of common misconceptions details various ideas described as widely held by the general populace, but which are false, misleading or otherwise flawed.
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It's hard to pass over a list of hundreds of common assumptions that turn out to be false. This has to be one of the greatest compiled lists on Wikipedia.
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