The Most Important Events That Changed History Forever

The Wrights Fly the First Powered Aircraft (1903)

The Wright brothers were two aviation pioneers credited with inventing, building, and flying the world's first motor-operated airplane. The Wright brothers' plane was recognized as "the first sustained and controlled heavier-than-air powered flight."

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The More You Know

  • The average person walks the equivalent of five times around the world in their lifetime.
  • Mount Everest is bigger now than the last time it was measured.
  • Martin Luther King Jr. had a C in public speaking.
  • Russia has a larger surface area than Pluto.
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