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During the Apollo 10 mission, astronauts found a floating turd in the cabin on two separate occasions, but no one ever admitted to it.
After Apollo 11 launched from Cape Canaveral in 1969, the bishop of Orlando joked that he was bishop of the Moon according to Canon Laws relating to newly discovered territories.
Two diseases have been successfully eradicated: smallpox in 1980 after the last case in 1977, and rinderpest in 2011 after the last case in 2001.
Judy Feld Carr, a Canadian music teacher, secretly led a smuggling operation that rescued 3,228 Jews from Syria between the early 1970s and 2001.
The Canadian government isn’t sure when Canada became a sovereign state. Its Supreme Court ruled that sovereignty occurred sometime between 1919 and 1931.
On May 5, 1961, Alan Shepard became the first American in space during a 15-minute suborbital flight aboard the Freedom 7 spacecraft.
In the 1875 Dublin whiskey fire, 13 people died not from the flames but from alcohol poisoning after whiskey from burning warehouses flooded the streets and was drunk by residents.
“Rock, paper, scissors” originated in China during the Han dynasty (206 BCE – 220 CE), where it was known as “shoushiling.”
The longest unbroken alliance in world history is between England and Portugal. It has lasted since 1386 and still stands today.
The Quakers invented price tags to stop haggling, believing it was unethical to charge customers differently.
After the USSR successfully launched the world’s first satellite, NASA tried to launch its own. It crashed in 3 seconds, so the press dubbed it “Kaputnik.”
“Fox tossing” was a pastime in the 18th century. The goal was to see which team of two could send a fox into the air the highest using a piece of cloth.
The longest Cricket Test match lasted over 12 days between England and South Africa in 1939 and ended in a draw because the English team had to catch their boat home.
In 1880, the pilgrim ship SS Jeddah was abandoned by its captain in a storm and reported sunk, but it survived until another ship towed it to Aden with almost all 953 passengers alive.
In 1900, Chinatown in Honolulu had a series of controlled fires to prevent the spread of the plague. The fires got out of control, but four months later, Honolulu was plague-free.
Long ago, people chewed willow bark for pain relief; it contains salicin, which is related to the salicylic acid used in aspirin today.
Pope Celestine V was reluctantly elected as Pope after sending the Cardinals an angry letter warning of divine judgment if they didn’t choose a pope soon.
In January 1945, the German ship Wilhelm Gustloff was sunk by a Soviet submarine in the Baltic Sea, killing about 9,400 people and making it the deadliest maritime disaster in history.
In October 2002, the Iraqi government proposed that George W. Bush and Saddam Hussein settle their differences through a formal, in-person duel instead of their nations going to war.
In the 1920s, the U.S. sold a radioactive “health” drink called Radithor. Its biggest fan, millionaire Eben Byers, drank about 1,400 bottles before dying from radiation-induced cancers.
From 1912 to 1952, the Olympics featured an art competition category, with medals awarded for painting, architecture, sculpture, music, and literature.
Ancient Egyptians were among the earliest cultures to use makeup, with evidence of cosmetic use dating back as far as 5,000 years.
