Orlando Bloom used to work at a skeet shooting range as a clay pigeon trapper.
Jackie Robinson was stationed at Fort Hood when he was faced with a court martial for refusing to sit in the rear of a bus. After winning his case, he became a baseball player. For the rest of his life, he not only fought for Black civil rights but spoke out against anti-Semitism.
Three, seven, and 11 are among the first several prime numbers, divisible only by themselves and one. Multiplied together, they equal 231, which happens to be the number of cubic inches in a U.S. fluid gallon.
A paleogenomic team analyzed teeth from Neolithic sites in present-day Germany and discovered the hepatitis B virus stretched back at least 7,000 years.
Penguins can aim their poop around four feet away.
This article appears in August 7 • 2020.