Hetherington, an English haberdasher, supposedly caused a riot when he first wore a top hat in public. It's reported that several woman fainted when they first saw the top hat in 1797.
Thanksgiving did not become a national holiday in the United States until the fall of 1863 when President Abraham Lincoln issued a proclamation declaring that the last Thursday in November would be a day of national thanksgiving.
The Code of Hammurabi is one of the earliest written legal codes, established by the Babylonian king Hammurabi. The code consists of 282 laws with scaled punishments, depending on social status (slaves, free men, etc.).
A War Was Fought Over a Bucket
Fact: The War of the Oaken Bucket (1325) was between the Italian city-states of Modena and Bologna. It started when Modena stole a wooden bucket from Bologna!
Scientists studying Apollo 16 samples uncovered insights into the Moon's past. Noble gases like argon reveal that solar wind and asteroid impacts shaped its surface over billions of years, offering clues for finding lunar resources beneficial to future
The DESI project traced cosmic structure growth over 11 billion years, validating Einstein’s gravity at large scales and refining dark energy models. It also set new limits on neutrino mass. Using data from 6 million galaxies, DESI creates the most pre
