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The medical term for ice cream headaches is sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia.
Aeroflot Flight 593 crashed because the pilot let his kids fly the plane who unknowingly disengaged the autopilot function. The crash killed everyone on board.
It takes Uranus 84 years to orbit the Sun once.
Mars’s surface shifts in a different way than Earth’s, resulting in huge Martian volcanoes up to 100 times bigger than those on our planet.
A 26-sided shape is known as a rhombicuboctahedron.
HISTORY FACTS 1820s
Thomas Jefferson and John Adams die on July 4, 1826, the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
HISTORY FACTS 1820s
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad incorporates - becoming the first railroad in the United States to offer transportation for people and commercial goods - on February 28, 1827.
Mob boss Vincent Gigante used to wander around New York in his bathrobe to convince the police he was insane and avoid capture.
HISTORY FACTS 1820s
In 1829, Presbyterian minister Reverend Sylvester Graham develops "Dr. Graham's Honey Biskets," later known as "Graham Crackers."
HISTORY FACTS 1820s
The Smithsonian Institution is founded in 1829 when British scientist James Smithson bequeaths $500,000 for its initial funding.
The military has used silly strings to detect tripwires in Iraq. Before entering a room, they can squirt it inside. If it hangs in the air, it may have revealed a wire.
Farm-raised ostriches get turned on by humans.
By applying even pressure to an egg, it is nearly impossible to break the shell by squeezing it.
So far, two diseases have successfully been eradicated: smallpox and rinderpest. The last case of smallpox was in 1977, and the last of rinderpest was in 2001.
A recently discovered deep-sea snail, the Scaly-Foot Gastropod, has a shell that is impressively developed. So much so that the U.S. military is trying to use its design to inspire defensive layers in military armor.
There are over 6,000 known species of grass.
HISTORY FACTS 1830s
Poet Emily Dickinson is born on December 10, 1830, in Amherst, MA.
The total weight of all air on Earth is 11 quintillion pounds.
“Time anxiety” occurs in a person when they are perpetually afraid of being late or of others being late.
Killdeer birds fake injuries to fool predators. The species will feign being injured in order to lure predators toward them and away from their nest of offspring. When the predator gets close enough, the killdeer miraculously “recovers” and beats a hasty retreat.
Ant queens can live for up to 30 years.
In the 18th century, wealthy British landowners hired ornamental hermits to live in their gardens.
HISTORY FACTS 1830s
In 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville and his friend Gustave de Beaumont spent nine months touring America. The book that de Tocqueville wrote following the trip, Democracy in America, is published in 1835.
HISTORY FACTS 1830s
The first reported bank robbery in U.S. history occurs at the City Bank of New York on March 19, 1831.
HISTORY FACTS 1830s
Democrat Andrew Jackson is re-elected president over his opponents, gathering 216 electoral votes to National Republican candidate Henry Clay's 49.
HISTORY FACTS 1830s
The first attempted assassination of a U.S. president (Andrew Jackson) fails when Richard Lawrence's gun misfires on January 30, 1835.
Garrett McNamara holds the record for the largest wave ever surfed, set in 2011 in Nazare, Portugal. The wave was 78 feet tall.
The logo on the Red Bull cans are not cattle, but a type of bovine called a “gaur.”
In Bruges, Belgium, there is an underground pipeline that runs 2 miles to transfer beer from a brewery to the bottling plant.
HISTORY FACTS 1830s
Cyrus McCormick patents "Improvement in Machines for Reaping Small Grain" (a horse-drawn grain reaper) on June 21, 1834.