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- Abo Elementary School in Artesia, New Mexico was the first public school in the United States constructed entirely underground.
- Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing (1969) than to the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza by roughly 500 years.
- Mammoths still walked the Earth when the pyramids were built—woolly mammoths survived on Wrangel Island until ~2000 BCE, 500 years after Giza's construction.
- The Great Emu War of 1932 saw the Australian military deploy soldiers with machine guns against 20,000 emus—and the emus won, with the operation abandoned as ineffective.
- The Pirahã people of the Amazon have no words for specific numbers, colors, or perfect tenses, and their language contains no recursion—challenging Chomsky's theory of universal grammar.
- The guillotine was still in official use in France when Star Wars was released in 1977; the last execution by guillotine occurred in 1977, abolished in 1981.
- Venus rotates so slowly that a day on Venus (243 Earth days) is longer than a year on Venus (225 Earth days).
- Tardigrades can survive in outer space, withstand pressures six times greater than the deepest ocean trenches, and live without food or water for more than 30 years.
- The wood frog can survive being frozen solid during winter, with up to 70% of its body water turning to ice, then thaw and resume normal activity.
- Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza by about 500 years.
- The last widow of a Civil War veteran died in 2020: Helen Viola Jackson married 93-year-old James Bolin in 1936 when she was 17.
- The mantis shrimp can punch with the acceleration of a .22 caliber bullet, creating cavitation bubbles that reach 4,700°C—nearly as hot as the sun's surface.