Before 1968, the dominant high jump technique involved an athlete jumping face forward and twisting their body mid-air to navigate their way over the bar.

It was at the Mexico 1968 Olympics, the unknown Fosbury introduced the new technique to the world. Fosbury soared over the bar with a record-breaking leap of 2.24 meters to win the gold medal for the USA.

Be sure to read the full article on olympics.com (3 min 📖). The video at the end is a must-see (5 min 🎥). When high jumper Dick Fosbury changed the game. Forever.

When only a teenager, the future co-founder and guitarist of Black Sabbath, Tony Iommi, lost the tips of two of his fret-board fingers and was told he’d never play guitar again. He has since played with false fingertips that he constructed himself. In 2023 he was ranked 13th in Rolling Stone's list of the greatest guitarists of all time.

If you win $1,000,000 in the lottery at age 18 and leave the money on the bank for 50 years -> You'll have $26,555 purchasing power left when you want to retire at 68 (7% new money added in average / per year).

There is no second best crypto asset

Having Bitcoin is like winning the lottery in slow motion.

There is a French company that you can hire to kidnap you. They charge US$1600.

1337% of π is 42

The New York Stock Exchange started out as a coffee house.

Did you know that World Kindness Day is celebrated annually on November 13? It was initiated by the World Kindness Movement, an organisation formed at a Tokyo Conference in 1997, when Japan brought together kindness organisations from various nations.

The city of Florence (circa 1400) used to enforce laws preventing people from wearing certain kinds of fabrics in public.

These “sumptuary laws” were designed in part to maintain social hierarchies, but also served as a way for governments to take more money from people.

At first, Florence used fines to prevent people from wearing fabrics that didn’t align with their social standing, and then those fines morphed into fees since many preferred their clothing choice over money.

Then these fees became licenses where citizens could entirely avoid the hassle of paying individual fees for their clothing choices by paying a single annual fee, or ‘gabella’.

This comes from Virginia Postrel’s book ‘The Fabric of Civilization’

The chief designer of the most powerful nuclear bomb ever detonated was awarded a peace prize from the inventor of dynamite.

A human loses about a million skin cells per 24 hours.

The computer that guided Apollo 11 to the Moon in 1969 (allegedly 😉) had less computing power than today's smartphones.

Edward Bernays the 'father of Public Relations' was the double nephew of Sigmund Freud.

Bernays initially named his new industry 'Propaganda' instead of 'Public Relations'.

Charlie Chaplin once lost in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.

The three best-known western names in China: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, and Elvis Presley.

Gorilla is the scientific name for the animal gorilla.

The American secret service tried to spike Hitler's food with female hormones to feminize him.

There's a "Dumb Starbucks" where every product has the word "dumb" in front of it.

The second-largest lake in Bolivia is called Lake Poopo. It's not a freshwater lake.

The current circulating supply of ETH remains an enigma, shrouded in mystery.

Applying hemorrhoid cream to your chest and waist can make you look more muscular.

I have been pursuing bounty for a long time but there is no program as easy as this. Who will win? Interesting

Fun fact. In the United States, if the federal minimum wage would have been pegged to the rate of inflation since a minimum wage law was put into affect, it would be approximately $34/hour.

Look it up if you don't believe me.

Did you know that the average smartphone today has more computing power than the computers used during the Apollo 11 moon landing? The Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) used by NASA in 1969 had a processing speed of about 0.043 MHz and 2KB of RAM. In comparison, modern smartphones typically have processors that operate at speeds of several gigahertz and RAM capacities ranging from 4GB to 12GB or more. It's amazing to think about how far technology has advanced in just a few decades, enabling us to carry more powerful computers in our pockets than what was used to send humans to the moon!

The Genesis Block, the first block in the Bitcoin blockchain, contains a hidden message in its coinbase parameter. It includes a headline from The Times newspaper on the 3rd of January 2009 stating, "Chancellor on the brink of second bailout for banks." This is seen as a symbolic statement on the potential of Bitcoin as an alternative financial system.

Honey never spoils; archaeologists have found pots of honey in ancient Egyptian tombs that are over 3,000 years old and still perfectly edible.

Did you know that if you double the value of a dollar cent for 30 days you would get $5,368,709.12

Lily Allen once turned down the opportunity to play a gig and be paid in “hundred of thousands of Bitcoin” – which would now be worth billions, making her richer than Madonna and Queen Elizabeth II.

Source & more info - https://www.nme.com/news/music/lily-allen-turned-chance-become-bitcoin-billionaire-four-times-richer-queen-2168194

With an orbital speed of 17,000 mph (28,158 km/h), the space shuttle crew travelled fast enough to see a sunrise or sunset every 45 minutes.