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Two of the original Mercury 7 astronauts wore regular work boots spray-painted silver in the famous photograph of them in their flight suits.
“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.
In 1995, the Empire State Building was lit in blue to commemorate the launch of blue M&Ms, a new color selected by more than 11 million voters in a national campaign.
Helen Keller was related to Confederate General Robert E. Lee through her paternal grandmother, who was his second cousin.
Following the Chernobyl disaster, sunflowers were planted in an attempt to remove radioactive elements from contaminated water and soil.
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.
Around 10,000 underground nuclear bunkers were built during the Cold War in Beijing. They were later sold as real estate and are currently inhabited by over a million people.
In 1998, grade school children in Aurora, Colorado, raised $35,000 to buy the freedom of child slaves in Sudan.
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.
In 1985, the New Orleans lifeguards threw a pool party to celebrate a season without a single drowning. Ironically, a man drowned in the pool that night.
In 1889, Margherita pizza was crafted to honor Queen Margherita, using ingredients that symbolize the Italian flag’s colors: tomato, mozzarella, and basil.
Nutella was invented during World War II when an Italian pastry maker mixed hazelnuts into chocolate to extend his chocolate ration.
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.
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.
Thomas Edison invented an electric pen in 1876, which was later adapted to become the first electric tattoo machine in 1891.
It’s estimated that around 400,000 workers lost their lives during the initial construction of the Great Wall of China.
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.
In 2014, the Fresno chapter of the Hells Angels waited in line for five days at a Walmart to purchase over 200 bicycles, which they donated to children in need.
The King of Macedon threatened to raze Sparta, saying “If I bring my army into your land, I will raze your city.” The Spartans replied: “If.” No attempt was made to capture the city.
When Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon, Buzz conducted a private communion service, drinking wine from a silver chalice he’d brought from his church.
