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In several categories real curious facts from around the world can continually provide astonishment or disbelief.

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10 percent of body heat is lost through the head. 12 are a dozen, 13 is also called a baker dozen. 15 national flags show birds. 1680 calculated an Italian mathematician, that man can not fly on its own, because he had too little muscle mass. 1788 reached the first English settlers in Australia. The Aborigines, Aboriginal people, since 60,000 years since lived on the continent. 1803 3 attempts were made to hang the Englishman Joseph Smith. After the node had once jammed and twice pulled the rope, they told him 'not to hang up' and pardoned him. 1805 accompanied the Indian Sacagawea as an interpreter, the two researchers Lewis and Clark on their expedition through the western United States. She is pictured on the one-dollar coin. 1848 survived an American named Phineas Gage that a 2.5 cm thick iron bar he was smoothly pushed through the head. He lived 13 years and earned his livelihood by letting himself be seen in a circus. 1861 Richard Cadbury invented a heart-shaped box of chocolates for Valentine's Day. 1881 Clara Barton founded at the age of 60 years, the American Red Cross, having previously kept soldiers in the American Civil War. 1885 lightning struck five times in the Washington Monument, but without receiving a thunder could be heard. 19,000 km puts the blood in our bodies every day back. 1914 Ernest Shackleton wanted to traverse by ship to Antarctica. He sat two years Stuck in Ice. Miraculously survived the whole crew. 1924 circled 2 US pilots for the first time the world by plane. 1930 drove 2 guys once across the USA and back in reverse. It took them 42 days. 1931 reached the first hydrogen balloon to the stratosphere in 15 781 meters altitude. 1932 wanted to turn a goat into a boy of Ghostbusters Henry Price. 1933 a thief was caught in Toronto, who had for 33 years stolen pants. Once he also stole a shirt, but that was the only time that he deviated from stealing trousers. 1934 Mickey Mouse got more postage than any other Hollywood star. 1942 was in India a lake full of skeletons. It is believed that people died around the year 850 around by a violent hailstorm. 1944 was a British soldier 5000 meters when his parachute did not open. He landed in a snowdrift in hostile Germany and survived with a concussion. His name was Nick Alkemades. 1947 fell at Roswell in the USA an object from the sky. The military said a crashed weather balloon. Newspapers reported a UFO, its occupants would be caught and explored in secret. 1950 tried the chemist Kurt Alder the check for a Nobel Prize in a dairy in Stockholm redeem. A taxi driver understood the address not right and went to a dairy rather than a bank, but the dairy owner sent Alder to the correct address and he got his money. 1953 a Cypriot was run over by a steamroller and survived, so he could tell it. He was pressed into the soft asphalt. 1960 jumped an Air Force pilot from a parachute from 31,333 meters above sea level from a balloon. 1960, an Air Force pilot to a record: He rose to the balloon 31 333 m and jumped from there to Earth. He wore a pressure suit. 1973 traveled the first spider, Arabella and Anita, into space. 1978 4,000 people stormed the town hall of Coacalco in Mexico and forced the mayor to eat 12 pounds of bananas. They then forced him to withdraw ... he was not very popular! 1979 kicked the pilot Bryan Allen only using its muscle power in the aircraft Gossamer Albatross across the English Channel. 1979 the composer Kirk Nurock wrote a sonata for 'dog and Piano'. A dog named Tippy howled for 28 minutes, while the Sonata was played. 1981 flew the first solar-powered aircraft from France to England. For 258 km it took 5 hours, 23 minutes.