Hitler ordered tanks to be made in Michigan and told the company to
not worry about sending them to Germany, he’d pick them up on his way
through Detroit.
In September 1994, Skydiving student Sharon McClelland amazingly
survived a 10,000-foot plunge in Ontario, by falling into a marsh
when her parachute malfunctioned. She struggled to her feet and
rushed to her instructor Kevin Killin – to apologize – because she
had not followed procedures to open her backup chute.
George Washington carried a portable sundial.
In the movie “Dances with Wolves”, not one animal was injured during
its filming, although there was a horse named “Dutch” who came down
with a nasty case of the runs.
Before the first landing on the moon (Apollo 11), NASA calculated the
amount of dust falling on the moon each year. Estimating the age of
the moon to be 4.5 billion years, it was figured that between 54 feet
and 900 feet of dust would be on the moon. The 1st lunar landing
module was equipped with huge landing pads to land on all of this
soft dust. However, when the astronauts landed they found virtually
no dust at all. Niel Armstrong’s 1st words after actually stepping on
the moon were “It’s SOLID!” This indicated that the moon is likely to
