In order for NASA to recognize you as an astronaut, you must travel higher than 50 miles from the Earth’s surface.
James Buchanan, the 15th U.S. president continuously bought slaves with his own money in order to free them.
Witold Pilecki, a Polish soldier, volunteered to be imprisoned in Auschwitz in order to gather information, escape and let the world know about the Holocaust.
Merriam-Webster dictionary’s founder learned 26 languages in order to evaluate the etymology of words.
People infected with bacteria “C. difficile” need healthy poop transplants in their gut in order to survive. Poop samples are sold at $40 each.
In order to discover that penguins sleep more deeply in the afternoon, scientists crept up on sleeping penguins at different times of the day and poked them with a stick until they woke up.
Despite their walnut-sized brain, octopuses are highly intelligent, possibly more so than any other order of invertebrates.
A city in Texas renamed itself to “DISH, Texas” in order to receive free Dish Satellite service for 10 years.
Guy Fawkes wanted to blow up the Parliament in order to start a Catholic government, not to put England in a state of anarchy.
The Helicodiceros is a plant that mimics the anus of a dead animal, in order to attract flies for pollination.
6 months before the Challenger disaster a lone engineer told his superiors about the O-Ring problem and warned the result “would be a catastrophe of the highest order: loss of human life.”
Germany was the first country ever to implement Daylight Saving Time in order to save energy during WW1.
The phrase ‘Time Person of the Year’ contains the first, second and third most commonly used nouns in English, in order.
Soldiers in Germany’s Military Forces are allowed to disobey any order they think would violate human dignity according to their conscience.