The black box flight recorder on airplanes is actually orange.
When the Titanic hit the iceberg that sank the ship, in the movie theater on board, they had been showing an early silent version of The Poseidon Adventure in which a supposedly unsinkable ocean-liner sinks.
Australian Dr. Barry Marshall won a Nobel Prize in 2005 after deliberately infecting himself with the bacteria that causes stomach ulcers.
The sun makes up 99.8% of all the mass in our solar system.
In the 19th century 46% alcohol was used to treat babies who were teething.
The Victorians used toxic arsenic to deal with all manner of ailments from malaria to arthritis, it was also used to treat morning sickness despite it's knowledge of causing extreme vomiting .
Most Cough medicine in the 19th century was made up of opium and Cannabis.
One of the greatest con-men in all of history in 1920 George Parker was selling the Brooklyn Bridge more then twice a week, to people.
In France in the year 1386 a pig dressed in human cloths was executed for killing a small child.
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