#GetFact'd: Was Christopher Columbus ever stranded at all?
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The famous sound of dial-up is the "handshake" between the modem and the Internet Service Provider before translating internet data into soundwaves.
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In Central Europe, there are hunger stones (hungerstein) in river beds marked with an inscription, visible only when the flow was low enough to warn of a drought that would cause famine. The hunger stones are very similar to the kilometers of Ancient Egypt. There were flow meters along the Nile which gave an indication of when the flooding wouldn’t bring enough nutrients. That allowed the civilisation to know that they needed to conserve grain stores.
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In 1504, while Christopher Columbus was stranded in Jamaica, he used his foreknowledge of a lunar eclipse to fool the natives into provisioning his men.
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