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The world’s largest grand piano was built by a 15-year-old in New Zealand. The piano is 18 feet and 9 inches long and has 85 keys, three fewer than the standard 88 keys.
Vesna Vulović survived the highest recorded fall without a parachute in 1972, plummeting from 33,333 feet. She spent 16 months in the hospital recovering from the incident.
Dipping bread in olive oil and balsamic vinegar isn’t a traditional Italian practice; it actually originated in San Francisco.
George Washington was a fan of hunting hounds and kept more than 30 of them. According to one of his journals, three of the hounds were named Drunkard, Tipler & Tipsy.
The first living creatures to orbit the Moon weren’t humans but tortoises! They spent seven days there in 1968 before returning safely to Earth.
According to the Drake equation, it’s statistically improbable that we’re the only form of intelligent life ever to exist.
In 1943, U.S. officials imposed a short-lived ban on sliced bread as a wartime conservation measure, which lasted less than two months.
In the 18th century, French astronomer Charles Messier cataloged 110 of the most fascinating astronomical objects he found while searching the night sky for comets.
“Pub” is short for public house, which means that an establishment is licensed to sell alcoholic drinks for drinking on the premises.
Koumpounophobia, the irrational fear of buttons, was reportedly something Apple co-founder Steve Jobs had, which is why he favored black turtlenecks rather than button-down shirts.
Mel Brooks helped produce the 1986 film “The Fly” but chose to be uncredited so that audiences would not assume it was a comedy.
The apple tree that inspired Sir Isaac Newton’s theory of gravity is still alive and growing fruit at Woolsthorpe Manor in Lincolnshire, England.
Mount Rushmore was constructed over 14 years, from 1927 to 1941, with the help of 400 workers. The entire project cost just under one million dollars.
On May 5, 1961, Alan Shepard became the first American in space during a 15-minute suborbital flight aboard the Freedom 7 spacecraft.
Comets follow highly elliptical orbits, spending most of their time in the distant dark reaches of the Solar System before swinging back toward the Sun.
Space telescopes, such as Hubble and the James Webb Space Telescope, allow us to look back in time, capturing light that originated from distant objects billions of years ago.
Saturn’s axis is tilted by about 26.7 degrees, giving it seasons similar to Earth’s, but because it takes nearly 30 years to orbit the Sun, each season lasts around seven Earth years.
In the 19th Century, endurance walking was a huge spectator sport. Pedestrianism, as it was known, often saw participants walk hundreds of miles.
Walt Disney holds the record for most Oscars won, with 22 competitive awards and four honorary Oscars, for a total of 26.
