26First SciFi Novel
The first ever science fiction novel, ‘A True Story’ was written in the 2nd century AD. The novel includes travel to the outer space, flying to the Moon, alien life forms, interplanetary warfare and continents across the ocean.
27. Science has shown that the egg came first, not the Chicken. The first egg was laid by a bird that was not a chicken. The first amniotic (hard-shelled) egg laid on land was around 312 million years ago. Chickens however were domesticated 8000 years ago from a bird named red junglefowl.
28. A depressed Manchester teen used several fake online personas to convince his best friend to murder him, and after surviving the attack, he became the first person in UK history to be charged with inciting their own murder.
29. When NASA was preparing for Sally Ride to travel as the first American female astronaut, engineers initially were at a loss about how many tampons to send. “Is 100 the right number?” they asked her. “No. That would not be the right number,” she replied.
30. One of the earliest application of the concept of “women and children first” was during the sinking of HMS Birkenhead in 1852. There were not enough lifeboats and the soldiers stood firm on board even as the ship broke up, allowing the women and children to board the boats safely and escape the sinking.
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31Wilma Rudolph
Wilma Rudolph had polio as an infant and was unable to walk properly until she was 11. For several years, her family had to massage her legs four times a day, and she had to wear a metal brace. In 1960, she became the first American woman to win three gold medals in an Olympic event.
32. In 2007, reigning Jeopardy! champion Scott Weiss purposely placed his final bet in such a way as to force the first three-way tie in the game’s history. He said he knew he could have bet more and won the game, but thought it would be fun to force a tie instead.
33. In the 1990s, the South African government dismantled all of its nuclear weapons becoming the first nation in the world which voluntarily gave up all nuclear arms it had developed itself.
34. The first woman to run for President of the United States was Victoria Woodhull in 1872, 50 years before women could vote. She had Frederick Douglass as her running mate and spent her election day in jail due to being arrested for obscenity.
35. Reinhold Messner was the first man to summit Everest without oxygen, was also the first to summit all 14,8000m peaks, reaching those without oxygen as well.
