Abebe Bikila – a double Olympic marathon champion from Ethiopia who ran barefoot
The Hypogeum – this 5000 year old underground temple in Malta was discovered by accident and contains 6000 skeletons
Warner/Chappell Music company charged $5,000 a day for public use of the song “Happy Birthday to You”
Unconventional military tactics that actually worked
Jesús García – Mexican railroad brakeman who died while preventing a train loaded with dynamite from exploding near Nacozari, Sonora
Holy cave where giant lions were sacrificed 60,000 years ago discovered in Russia
“Murder is my business” – said Weegee, the real-life Nightcrawler
Chair No.14, or “the Bistro Chair”, is the first mass produced and the best-selling chair in the world
Ironclad -the modern tank’s forgotten deadly ancestor
Alexander Graham Bell developed a metal detector as a last ditch effort to locate a bullet lodged in the chest of American President James Garfield in 1881
