The Strange People You'll Only Meet On the Subway

Travel with a Friend

It’s always better to travel the subway with a friend so you don’t have to worry about falling asleep on top of a stranger.

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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.
The television was invented only two years after the invention of sliced bread.
Four times more people speak English as a second language than as a native one.
A species of squid has been observed to leap from the ocean by using pressurized water jets to achieve flight, going as far as 98 feet!