Roger Bannister's "four minute mile" record stood for 46 days before it was broken.

Napoleon was once attacked by thousands of rabbits.

Napoleon Bonaparte was once one of the most powerful men in Europe, but he suffered an ignominious defeat at the hands (or paws) of rabbits. After a military victory, Napoleon's chief of staff organized a rabbit hunt to celebrate. Thousands of rabbits were brought in to be set loose, but instead of hopping away when the cages were opened, they turned to attack, swarming the partygoers. After trying and failing to shoo them away, the great Emperor Napoleon ran for the safety of his carriage.

February 23 is National Tile Day

Star Trek's Scotty stormed the beach at Normandy.

What episode was that?
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Canadian actor James Doohan, best known for playing Montgomery "Scotty" Scott on the original Star Trek series, served in World War II with the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division. As a commissioned lieutenant, he led his troop up a mine-strewn Juno Beach as part of the Allied Forces' D-Day invasion. Later in the day, he was wounded by friendly fire that caused the amputation of the middle finger on his right hand. You might not have noticed it because, during his time on Star Trek, directors did the best they could to avoid showing the injury on screen.
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in 1928, the US National Screw Thread Commission established a standard for screw threads. For the first time, screws were interchangeable.

Apple Pie isn't actually American.

It takes 2700 liters of water to make a single T-Shirt.

Pigs are constitutionally protected in Florida.

People have been looking at Uranus since 128 BCE.


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What is recognized as the first science fiction book was written in the 2nd century CE. The Roman author Lucian wrote "A True Story" that involved a group of travelers who managed to sail from the Earth into space, finding themselves caught in a war between the Sun and the Moon over the planet Venus.

Some planets produce diamond rain.

Despite popular belief, the moon has an atmosphere.


Not much of an atmosphere, but it has one.


The air pressure on the Moon averages only 0.3 nPa, where Earth’s average air pressure is 101.33 kPa.


Scientists are still not sure why the chemical composition of the moon's atmosphere is different from the chemical composition of the moon's surface.

Sharks can live for five centuries.