On Wednesday 1st June 2016 NASA met social media, broadcasting a chat between Mark Zuckerberg and 3 astronauts aboard the ISS on their Facebook page.
The 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, will be the first time a South American country has the right to host them.
Google is offering US$20 million to any private team that can land on the moon by New Year’s Eve of 2016.
For a few years until 2016, if you want to buy dollars in Argentina to travel abroad, you needed to send an application to the government declaring where, when and why you are traveling.
In 2016, a court in Saudi Arabia sentenced a man to 10 years in prison and 2,000 lashes for asserting his atheism through Twitter posts.
Scientists discovered in 2016 a massive coral reef at the mouth of the Amazon River, covering over 3,600 square miles.
New York City is home to the largest transgender population in the U.S., estimated at 25,000 in 2016.
Brazil’s Congress in 2016 includes suspects accused of murder and drug trafficking, a judo champ and a clown.
Elementary school students in Virginia built a satellite that was later deployed into space by NASA in 2016.
The rock band ZZ Top has had the same members since 1969 without changes. That’s 47 years up until 2016.
Hackers broke into Mark Zuckerberg ‘s Twitter and Pinterest accounts in 2016. They say his password was “dadada.”
As of 2016, Bill Gates could give US$10 to every human being on Earth and still keep US$3 billion for himself.
India planted nearly 50 million trees in 24 hours on Monday, July 11, 2016, a new Guinness World Record.