Portal:Georgia (U.S. state)/Did you know

• ...that, in 1973, a Learjet 24 crashed shortly after take-off from DeKalb-Peachtree Airport after striking birds which likely came from a landfill site adjacent to the runway?

• ...that 29 employees were killed in the Thiokol-Woodbine Explosion when a fire spread down an assembly line and detonated 56,322 magnesium tripflares that had been manufactured for the U.S. Army?

• ...that the Great Atlanta fire of 1917 destroyed 300 acres and nearly 2,000 buildings and was put out with help from fire engines as far away as Knoxville, Tennessee?

• ...that retired American baseball player Hank Aaron holds ten Atlanta Braves team records?

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Portal:Georgia (U.S. state)/Did you know/1

• ...that, in 1973, a Learjet 24 crashed shortly after take-off from DeKalb-Peachtree Airport after striking birds which likely came from a landfill site adjacent to the runway?

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Portal:Georgia (U.S. state)/Did you know/2

• ...that within a year after the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, one venue was converted into a baseball stadium while two others were imploded?

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Portal:Georgia (U.S. state)/Did you know/3

• ...that prehistoric people used the same 89 °F (32 °C) warm springs that Franklin Delano Roosevelt would use in the 20th century?

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Portal:Georgia (U.S. state)/Did you know/4

• ...that, by the end of the 20th century, the Peachtree Presbyterian megachurch had the largest Presbyterian congregation of any church in the United States?

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Portal:Georgia (U.S. state)/Did you know/5

• ...that the highest temperature ever recorded in the U.S. state of Georgia is 112 °F (44 °C), while the lowest ever recorded is -17 °F (-27 °C)?

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Portal:Georgia (U.S. state)/Did you know/6

• ...that 29 employees were killed in the Thiokol-Woodbine Explosion when a fire spread down an assembly line and detonated 56,322 magnesium tripflares that had been manufactured for the U.S. Army?

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Portal:Georgia (U.S. state)/Did you know/7

• ...that the U.S. military's Tybee hydrogen bomb, missing off the coast of the state of Georgia since 1958, may recently have been discovered?

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Portal:Georgia (U.S. state)/Did you know/8

• ...that the Great Atlanta fire of 1917 destroyed 300 acres and nearly 2,000 buildings and was put out with help from fire engines as far away as Knoxville, Tennessee?

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Portal:Georgia (U.S. state)/Did you know/9

• ...that among the effects of Hurricane Dennis in Georgia was the death of a Decatur man from a tree that fell on his bedroom?

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Portal:Georgia (U.S. state)/Did you know/10

• ...that over 400 species of birds have been recorded in the American state of Georgia?

DYK: 11-15

Portal:Georgia (U.S. state)/Did you know/11

• ...that Hulk Hogan's Pastamania was a restaurant located in the Mall of America and created by the WWE's Hulk Hogan, and that it failed spectacularly?

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Portal:Georgia (U.S. state)/Did you know/12

• ...that retired American baseball player Hank Aaron holds ten Atlanta Braves team records?

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Portal:Georgia (U.S. state)/Did you know/13

• ...that the Franklin House, built on a lot once owned by the University of Georgia, has held a hotel and a hardware company, and now leases office space to the university?

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Portal:Georgia (U.S. state)/Did you know/14

• ...that the Old Harbor Light in Savannah, Georgia, also known as the Savannah Harbor Rear Range Light, resembles a giant streetlight?

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Portal:Georgia (U.S. state)/Did you know/15

• ...that the Atlanta Neighborhood Union, an all-women African-American association founded in 1908, was a model for other improvement associations?

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