Abandoned Stadiums All Over the World

Berlin Olympics

The Berlin Olympics were smack at the beginning of World War II. It was also the first Olympics to be televised. It was quite a controversial time.

Where the Wild Things Are was supposed to have been about horses—but the illustrator couldn't draw them.
North Korea and Cuba are the only places you can't buy Coca-Cola.
A team of six women programmed the first digital computer.
It costs the U.S. Mint almost twice as much to mint each penny and nickel as the coins are actually worth. Taxpayers lost over $100 million in 2013 just through the coins being made.