Hans Sloane – the Irish collector who invented chocolate milk/hot chocolate while visiting Jamaica in 1680s News
Werner Forssmann – the Nobel winner who performed the first human cardiac catheterization… on himself Administrative corner
After the end of WWII Oskar Schindler went bankrupt trying to raise chickens in Argentina Administrative corner
While NASA spent a large amount of money developing the Space Pen, the Soviets just used pencils Administrative corner Featured
The Ovitz family – A whole family of dwarfs who survived imprisonment at the Auschwitz concentration camp Administrative corner
France gave the daguerreotype photographic process as a free gift to the world except to Britain. They had to pay Administrative corner Glamour
While trying to catch serial killer Andrei Chikatilo, the Soviet police solved more than 1000 unrelated crimes Administrative corner
Frederick Banting discovered the insulin and turned down all offers from big corporations, saying that insulin was his gift to mankind Administrative corner Lifestyle
The Pink Chanel suit worn by Jacqueline Kennedy and stained with the President’s blood will be placed on a public display – in 2103 Fashion Strangeness
In 1956 Arthur C. Clarke discovered the underwater ruins of a temple from the 6th century BCE while scuba diving Featured