Record-Breaking PR Stunt Ends in Citywide Chaos

Major Distraction

Motorists on the highway were so distracted by the millions of balloons floating overhead that they crashed their cars. Streets and waterways were clogged with balloons; the nearby airport had to shut down due to the number of balloons obscuring the runway.

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The More You Know

  • The first commercial airplane flight lasted 23 minutes.
  • In 1993, San Francisco held a referendum over whether a police officer called Bob Geary was allowed to patrol while carrying a ventriloquist’s dummy called Brendan O’Smarty. He was.
  • 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.
  • Lightning can heat the air it passes through to 50,000 degrees.
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