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“Suicide attempts at the Empire State Building are rare, but the same unfortunately cannot be said about the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, the most popular such site in the United States. (The Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge in China is widely regarded as the world’s most popular suicide bridge, and the Golden Gate Bridge is number two.) We don’t know, officially, how many people have taken their lives there because when the number hit 997, authorities stopped counting to avoid giving anyone the incentive of being jumper number 1,000. Whatever the number is, it could have been much higher. In 1994, California Highway Patrol Sergeant Kevin Briggs was assigned to patrol the bridge. Since then, he’s managed to talk an estimated 200 people out of jumping.”
― Now I Know More: The Revealing Stories Behind Even More of the World's Most Interesting Facts
― Now I Know More: The Revealing Stories Behind Even More of the World's Most Interesting Facts
“You won’t find the name of Yoda’s species or its home planet in the Holocron. The former has never been named and the latter has never been identified.”
― Now I Know More: The Revealing Stories Behind Even More of the World's Most Interesting Facts
― Now I Know More: The Revealing Stories Behind Even More of the World's Most Interesting Facts
“In 1958, a New York diamond merchant named Harry Winston donated the Hope Diamond to the Smithsonian Institute. At forty-five-and-a-half carats, the gem is worth an estimated $200 million (give or take $50 million), but Winston didn’t hire an armored car to deliver it to the Smithsonian. He sent it via the U.S. Postal Service, placing it in a box, wrapping the box in brown paper, and insuring it for $145.29.”
― Now I Know More: The Revealing Stories Behind Even More of the World's Most Interesting Facts
― Now I Know More: The Revealing Stories Behind Even More of the World's Most Interesting Facts
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