Portal:Georgia (U.S. state)/Did you know
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- ...that prehistoric people used the same 89 °F (32 °C) warm springs that Franklin Delano Roosevelt would use in the 20th century?
- ...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 the Atlanta Neighborhood Union, an all-women African-American association founded in 1908, was a model for other improvement associations?