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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.
Telescopes in space work far better and are much more accurate than Earth-based telescopes, as their vision is not blurred by Earth’s atmosphere.
Mercury’s orbit is the most eccentric of all the planets, following an oval path that makes its distance from the Sun vary during each revolution.
Only 4% of women participated in the Massachusetts 1895 ballot for women’s right to vote. The few that did vote voted overwhelmingly in favor of the change.
A fully charged battery weighs more than an empty battery, but the difference is so small that it can’t be measured.
Cork comes from the bark of the cork oak tree and is commonly used for bottle stoppers and flooring materials.
The Simpsons creator Matt Groening originally planned for Krusty the Clown to be Homer Simpson in disguise, which is why Krusty looks so similar to Homer.
It’s estimated that there are a whopping 10,000 stars in the universe for every grain of sand on Earth!
In 1992, a North Dakota teen lost his arms in a farm accident, but managed to call for help by using his mouth to open a door and dial for help with a pencil. Both arms were reattached.
Two of the original Mercury 7 astronauts wore regular work boots spray-painted silver in the famous photograph of them in their flight suits.
Chess piece names changed over time; the queen was once called a vizier, the bishop an elephant, and the rook a chariot.
Los Pinos, once the residence of Mexico’s presidents, is 14 times the size of the White House and became accessible to the public on December 1, 2018.
Released in Australia in 1906, the world’s first full-length movie ran for seventy minutes and was called “The Story of the Kelly Gang.”
The Powerpuff Girls had an episode called “Meet the Beat-Alls,” in which almost every line and plot point was based on lyrics from the Beatles.
On June 8, 1975, the Soviet Venera 9 space probe became the first spacecraft to photograph Venus’s surface and return images to Earth.
Stonehenge was restored several times in the 20th century, including re-erecting fallen stones, straightening leaning ones, and stabilizing them with concrete foundations.
At College of the Ozarks in Missouri, students work 15 hours per week and two 40-hour weeks each year instead of paying for tuition.
Chinese scientists observed that snakes exhibit erratic behavior before earthquakes, such as leaving their nests, even during cold weather, and sometimes crashing into walls.
The character Russell Crowe played in “Gladiator” was based on at least four different historical people.
