On September 13, 1985, U.S. Air Force pilot, Major Wilbert “Doug” Pearson, shot down a satellite while piloting an F-15A Eagle fighter aircraft. He became the first pilot ever to ...
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Why a pin? It’s explained at the end of the story Having a dangerous toy that tends to injure the people you’re marketing it to is never a good business ...
Liquid Paper is the magical stuff that can cover mistakes, but if it weren’t for one woman and her difficulty using an electric typewriter, it might never have been invented. ...
The United States and the Soviet Union each had programs that took place from the early 1960s to the late 1980s that conducted non-military nuclear detonations that were known as ...
Youtube/Kym Illman A message in a bottle washed up on the shore of Wedge Island on the western coast of Australia and was found on January 21, 2018. While a ...
Eddie Chapman wasn’t who you would think could be a secret agent, but he was instrumental in helping to pull off one of the greatest deceptions of World War II. ...
It was a cringing mistake in a time when mistakes weren’t merely forgiven. What made things worse was that the glaring error was printed in the Bible. The Bible in ...
Walt Disney World is the most visited vacation resort in the world, but it might not have been that way if Walt Disney hadn’t kept the development a secret in ...
When airplanes reach the end of their lives, they have to go somewhere. Nowhere is this better on display than Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, Arizona. This is a ...
If you’ve ever been an avid jean wearer, you’ve probably discovered that the little, tiny pocket right above the front pocket on a pair of jeans doesn’t hold much, but ...
Chris Wood, CC BY-SA 4.0/Wikimedia Franklin D. Roosevelt’s special presidential yacht, the Potomac, had an interesting life. It was used by a US president, had various private owners that included ...
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