The Stories Behind These Abandoned Islands Will Freak You Out

The More You Know

• A U.S. park ranger named Roy C. Sullivan held the record for being struck by lightning the most times, having been struck — and surviving — seven times between 1942 and 1977.
• 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.
• China owns all the pandas in the world.
• There was a flying dinosaur the size of a giraffe.