J.R.R. Tolkien asked his wife to marry him by mail after no having communication with her for 5 years, meanwhile she was already engaged to another man
In 1911, eleven & seven year old brothers rode on horseback from NYC to San Francisco in 62 days
Nongqawuse – The teenage Prophetess of Doom
150 years later, explorers unearthed the schooner off New Yorks shoreline
3.7 billion year old fossil discovered on Greenland: The oldest fossil on Earth
Violet Jessop – “Miss Unsinkable” who survived the sinking of RMS Titanic, the HMHS Britannic and the collision of RMS Olympic
The elephant bird: Madagascar’s extinct giant birds are considered the largest to have ever lived
Kenichi Horie became the first person to sail across the Pacific solo, then arrested for having no passport or money
Did Winston Churchill really give a piece of London to Yugoslavia during WWII
During the Civil War, a man gained national recognition by repeatedly auctioning off a plain sack of flour. By doing so, he raised $250,000 which aided wounded soldiers.
