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Following the Chernobyl disaster, sunflowers were planted in an attempt to remove radioactive elements from contaminated water and soil.
When coffee first emerged in the Ottoman Empire in the 16th century, it was considered a drug, and its consumption was forbidden.
In 1872, President Ulysses S. Grant was arrested for speeding in a horse-drawn carriage and had to pay a $20 fine.
Helen Keller was related to Confederate General Robert E. Lee through her paternal grandmother, who was his second cousin.
Surfing in one form or another originated in 12th-century Polynesia. However, Europeans first witnessed it during Captain Cook’s voyage to Hawaii in 1769.
The bloodiest day in U.S. history was the Civil War Battle of Antietam. In just one day, approximately 23,000 people were killed or maimed. Neither side was victorious.
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.
From 1777 until its admission to the United States in 1791, Vermont existed as a self-governing independent state. It had its own copper coins and operated its own postal service.
In the 1930s, Meyer Lansky (a major Jewish mob figure) frequently disrupted Nazi rallies by breaking limbs, cracking skulls, and throwing attendants out of windows.
The Man in the Iron Mask was an unidentified prisoner held in a French prison for 34 years until his death in 1703. He was made to wear a mask so no one could identify him.
Western mathematicians did not accept negative numbers for over 18 centuries. They treated them as absurd solutions to equations.
In 1920, The New York Times called rockets in space ridiculous and belittled the rocket scientist Robert H. Goddard, calling him less educated than a high school student.
Jean Maridor, a French pilot, died on August 3, 1944, when his attempt to deflect a V-1 bomb led to an explosion. His sacrifice prevented the bomb from hitting a field hospital.
The Scottish-American Soldiers Monument in Edinburgh is the only monument to the American Civil War outside the United States.
Abraham Lincoln’s son, Robert, was nearly crushed by a train, only to be rescued by Edwin Booth. A year later, Edwin’s brother, John Wilkes Booth, murdered President Abraham Lincoln.
In 1992, a mere 359 years after condemning him for heresy for it, the Vatican admitted that Galileo’s theory that the Earth revolves around the sun was correct.
In 1979, Elvita Adams jumped from the 86th floor of the Empire State Building but was blown back onto the 85th floor by a gust of wind, surviving the fall with a fractured hip.
The oldest “your mom” joke was discovered on a 3,500-year-old Babylonian tablet in Iraq in 1976. Although the tablet has since been lost, the text was preserved.
One of South Korea’s worst oil spills occurred on December 7, 2007, and within 33 days, more than one million civilians, soldiers, and officials had volunteered to help with the cleanup.
Popularized by the Shakespeare play, many people think Julius Caesar’s last words were “And you, Brutus?” In reality, he said, “You too, my child?”
Of the 77 Olympians competing in the golf tournament at the 1904 Summer Olympics, 74 represented the USA, and 3 represented Canada. Canada won the gold medal.
In July 1986, two STR-1 robots, based on Soviet lunar rovers, were deployed to Chornobyl to clear radioactive debris but eventually failed due to high radiation levels.
In Ancient Greece, throwing an apple to a woman was a symbolic gesture of romantic interest, and catching it indicated acceptance of that interest.
