This Young Woman’s Extraordinary Pregnancy Only Happens Once Every 500 Years

The More You Know

• The sun and moon appear to be the same size in the sky because of an astonishing coincidence: the moon is 400 times smaller but 400 times closer.
• Following the release of Rocky IV, a joke was making rounds in Hollywood. Since Rocky had run out of opponents, he would have to fight an alien if a fifth movie was made. Jim and John Thomas took the joke seriously and wrote a screenplay based on it, which later became the movie "Predator".
• When the Super Bowl champion Giants visited the White House in 1987, they dumped popcorn on President Reagan.
• Alexander the Great encouraged his men to shave so enemies couldn't grab their beards during battles.