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  • For anyone who hasn’t heard this one: When the Concorde flew at supersonic speeds, the airframe got hot enough that it expanded about a foot longer than it was on the ground. This opened up a small gap between the flight engineer’s console and the rear bulkhead of the cockpit. On each plane’s final flight, the flight engineers stuffed their hats into the gap, which then closed up after cooling off.





  • New England, New Brunswick, far eastern New York, and southern Quebec are also an island. Lake Champlain straddles the border between northern Vermont and New York. The lake drains north via the Richelieu River, which connects to the Saint Lawerence River and the Atlantic Ocean. At the south end of Lake Champlain, there’s the Champlain Canal, which goes west to the Hudson River, which also drains to the Atlantic.

    The Hudson also connects to the Erie Canal, which would make northern New York its own island.