Fifth-Grader Rescues School Bus Full of Classmates After Deadly Freak Accident

Lenoir Left Behind

He realized that one person, in particular, hadn't made it off the bus: Lenoir. Nicholas took a deep breath, steeled himself, and dove head-first back into the lake. In the chaos, nobody had noticed the alligator, who was lingering a few dozen feet away. If he pointed out that they were in real danger, chaos would ensue and people might get left behind...

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The More You Know

  • The glow around the moon is called a "broch."
  • Pilots and their co-pilots are required to eat different meals before flights so that they don’t both end up with food poisoning.
  • Maine is the only state that has a one-syllable name.
  • A U.S. park ranger named Roy C. Sullivan held the record for being struck by lightning the most times, having been struck — and surviving — seven times between 1942 and 1977.
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