The Most Interesting Facts About the Legendary Kobe Bryant

High School Sweethearts

The couple met while they were both teenagers in high school. Though her family didn't agree with her relationship with a soon-to-be high profile basketball star, they married in 2001. They were married for 19 years.

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The More You Know

  • The speed of a computer mouse is measured in "Mickeys."
  • A solar powered, self-filling water bottle has been invented for bike riders that condenses atmospheric moisture to automatically fill the bottle.
  • The first American woman to go to medical school was admitted as a joke. Geneva Medical School thought it was joke when Elizabeth Blackwell applied to attend 1847. She graduated in 1849, started her own practice, and opened an infirmary for the poor.
  • A full jumbo jet tank has enough fuel to drive a car around the world four times.
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