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David Ingram, an English sailor who was marooned in Mexico in 1567 and was picked up in Nova Scotia in 1568, claimed to have walked 3,000 miles from Mexico to Canada.
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The first ever politician to use an airplane for election campaigns was Adolf Hitler; which led to much of his early popularity.
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The reason Dalmatians have been historically associated with fire-fighting is because in the days of horse drawn carts, Dalmatians worked exceptionally well with horses and would run ahead of the cart to clear pedestrians and guide the firefighters to fires quickly.
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Tippi Hedren, star of Hitchcock’s “The Birds”, is the reason why 40% of nail salon technicians in the US are Vietnamese women. While doing humanitarian work in Norcal in the 70’s, she introduced them to nail work, leading many to getting licensed and pass along the skill.
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Autumn is in the air, which means that Halloween will be here before you know it. This holiday is great fun for adults and children alike, making the occasion the perfect excuse to throw a party. Here are five tips to help you to throw the best Halloween party ever! Consider Entertainment While everyone will […]
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King Gillette, inventor of the safety razor, was a socialist who wrote a book describing his vision of the U.S. population living in a single utopian metropolis/building powered by Niagara Falls. Only 1 in 7 people would need to work, and it would be free of money and thus free of crime.
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A bank robber in France made a fictitious, coded document which he claimed as evidence during his trial. While the judge was distracted by the document, Albert Spaggiari jumped out of a window, landing safely on a parked car and escaped on a waiting motorcycle. He was never seen again.
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The last school that was desegregated was Cleveland High School in Cleveland, Mississippi. This happened in 2016. The order to desegregate this school came from a federal judge, after decades of struggle. This case originally started in 1965 by a fourth-grader.
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In 1921 a submarine ran out of fuel some 190 Km from Hawaii during searching of a lost tug boat. The submarine had a week’s worth of ration on board and no radio communication. The crew make a sail by rigging up blankets. The submarine successfully sailed to Hawaii in a couple of days.
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The U.S. military has used superstition and pretended to be vampires and ghosts to scare enemies away. They dispersed scary horoscopes in Germany, staged vampire attacks in the Philippines, and in Vietnam blasted ghost tapes which consisted of spooky music and eerie voices. Only vampires worked.
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