When Lonnie Johnson was in high school, he was the only black student to attend a science fair. He went on to get a Phd. in Science from Tuskegee University and work at NASA. While working at home, he had the idea of a squirt gun. He then built a prototype using PVC pipe, Plexiglas, O-ring seats and so on, and this invention became the Super Soaker.Lonnie Johnson
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María de la Salud Ramírez is the real life inspiration behind 2017 animated movie character Mama Coco from the movie Coco. Maria died in 2022 without getting any recognition from Disney or Royalty after reaching out to them several times.
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Today is Valentine's Day, the feast day of St. Valentine, a priest and physician who was martyred about 270 ce in Rome, and the tradition of exchanging greetings of love on Valentine's Day is based on the legend that Valentine had signed a letter to his jailer's daughter, with whom he had fallen in love, “from your Valentine.
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USS Maine destroyed, leading to Spanish-American War
On this day in 1898, an explosion in Havana harbour sank the battleship USS Maine, killing 260 American seamen and precipitating the Spanish-American War, which originated in the Cuban struggle for independence from Spain.
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Almost three quarters of all of Kenya’s athletics come from one tribe, the Kalenjins.

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“Go” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
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Dexterous comes from the Latin word dexter, meaning “on the right side.” Since most people are right-handed, and therefore do things more easily with their right hand.
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Thundersnow is an unusual kind of thunderstorm with snow falling as the primary precipitation instead of rain.
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Allodoxaphobia is the fear of other people's opinions. It's a rare social phobia that's characterised by an irrational and overwhelming fear of what other people think.
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A book called 'A la recherche du temps perdu' by Marcel Proust contains an estimated 9,609,000 characters, making it the longest book in the world. The title translates to "Remembrance of Things Past".
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Mathematicians have jokingly proposed a standard unit of measurement for beauty: the “millihelen,” inspired by Helen of Troy. A millihelen is defined as the amount of beauty required to launch a single ship.
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The color orange is named after the appearance of the ripe orange fruit. Before this word was introduced to the English-speaking world, the color orange was referred to as Geoluhread meaning yellowish red.
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In the late 1990s, Julia Hill climbed a 200-foot, approximately 1000-year-old Californian redwood tree & didn’t come down for another 738 days. She ultimately reached an agreement with Pacific Lumber Company to spare the tree & a 200-foot buffer zone surrounding the tree.
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Rosa Parks being fingerprinted by Lieutenant D. H. Lackey as one of the people indicted as leaders of the Montgomery bus boycott on February 22, 1956. She was one of 73 people rounded up by deputies that day after a grand jury charged 113 African Americans for organizing the boycott.
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There is a basketball court above the American Supreme Court named "The Highest Court In The Land" that was designed in the 1940s
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Firework displays during the Chinese New Year stem from the tradition of lighting bamboo stalks on fire to ward off evil spirits, especially Nian, the evil dragon most commonly portrayed in the new year parades.
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The practice of pouring of a liquid in memory of those who have “passed on” was common in Ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome. “Pouring one out for the homies” is a custom over 3,000 years old

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The “jump” you sometimes get while falling asleep is known as hypnic myoclonus and as much as 70 percent of people worldwide experience this.
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