In early drafts of the ” Back to the Future ” script, the time machine was built out of an old refrigerator.
From 1965 to 1991, it was forbidden to read Green Eggs and Ham in Maoist China because of its “portrayal of early Marxism”.
The average high school kid today has the same level of anxiety as the average psychiatric patient in the early 1950’s.
Ruth Lawrence, a child prodigy, passed the Oxford University math exams at age 10, coming first out of all 530 candidates, and then completed the degree a year early by age 13.
In the early years of the 20th century, horses were causing so much pollution with their poop that cars were seen as the “green” alternative.
A new model of the chemistry of the early solar system says that up to half the water now on Earth was inherited from an abundant supply of interstellar ice as our sun formed.
The term “junkie” comes from the fact that recreational heroin users in the early 1900s would collect and sell scrap metal to pay for their heroin.
Ancient Romans ran cold aqueduct water in pipes through their houses in an early form of air conditioning.
YouTube’s early headquarters were situated above a pizzeria and Japanese restaurant in San Mateo, California.
Before 1977, tourists were allowed to climb the stones at Stonehenge, and until the early 20th century, tourists were given chisels to facilitate souvenir-taking.
Finland celebrates “National Sleepy Head Day,” where the last person in the house to wake up is thrown into water by the early risers.