The Weirdest and Most Unfortunate Names of All Time

The More You Know

• The woolly mammoth survived until Egyptian times.
• 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 first commercial airplane flight lasted 23 minutes.
• You can major in wine at Cornell University.