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Marco was born in the 1250s to a wealthy merchant family in this Italian city-state famed for its traders & travelers |
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The National Weather Service says that if you live to age 80, your odds of getting struck by this at least once are one in 15,300 |
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Fences of this wire invented for cattle are a constant in the internment camp novel "When the Emperor was Divine" |
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The N.Y. Times said this CBS summer dating show was "a cross between 'The Bachelor' and the Stanford prison experiment" |
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The front passenger seat--did you call it? |
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At Hormuz on this gulf, Marco & co. didn't like the looks of the available ships & went on by land |
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Gemologists say the odds of finding one of these in an oyster are around one in 10,000 |
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Early on in a Twain work, Tom Sawyer must complete this "colorful" painting task on "thirty yards of board fence" |
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Kandi Burruss, under wraps as the Night Angel, was finally revealed to be the season 3 winner of this musical competition |
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In cocktails, this adjective means "not containing alcohol"; in paper making, it's the opposite of "recycled" |
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Unaided, your voice can be heard from this distance |
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Back in Italy, Marco Polo dictated his book while jailed in this city-state, later the birthplace of another famous explorer--Columbus |
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Your odds of drawing this highest hand in 5-card poker? 649,739 to 1 |
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In this 1990 novel raptors "hit the fence, take a shock. They never seem to mind" |
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The numbers found on products made from this material are called resin identification codes & are used to sort different types |
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A clever last word as you are leaving |
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Early in his travels Marco stayed in the Crusader capital of Acre, now Akko in this country |
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The ESA said there was a 1 in 7,299 chance that 2006 QV89, one of these, would hit earth in 2019 (Spoiler alert: It didn't) |
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This Melville scribe spends time staring at "dead-walls", then at the high walls of prison |
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Originally a trainer on this show, Bob Harper became its host when it moved to the USA Network |
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With some of it now coming from scrap, this metal, symbol Sn, has not been mined in the U.S. since 1993 |
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Also the title of a 1964 Pink Panther film, this phrase refers to an uneducated guess |
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After several years of travel, around 1275 Marco reached the goal of his first journey--Shangdu, the summer court of this empire |
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A $2 ticket buys you about a 1 in 300 million chance of hitting the jackpot in this alliterative 45-state lottery |
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A stone wall in "Stardust" by this author has a 6-foot gap, with guards posted on each side |
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Fashion victims got their wardrobes tossed in favor of more stylish dress on this series with Stacy London & Clinton Kelly |
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Nearly 100% of this black cement-like material made from oil is recycled when removed from pavement |
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Also called a gravity assist, this maneuver uses the gravity of a celestial body to accelerate a spacecraft |
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