These Students Risk Their Lives To Walk To School Every Day

All Hands On Deck

Each healthy, able-bodied villager is assigned a child, and they are responsible for helping drag the child across the river…

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The More You Know

  • Doctors' sloppy handwriting kills more than 7,000 people annually in the United States.
  • An 11-year-old is responsible for naming Pluto.
  • Following the release of Rocky IV, a joke was making rounds in Hollywood. Since Rocky had run out of opponents, he would have to fight an alien if a fifth movie was made. Jim and John Thomas took the joke seriously and wrote a screenplay based on it, which later became the movie "Predator".
  • The Guinness brewery supported all of it's employees who chose to fight in WW1. They were paid half of their wages while away, and their jobs were guaranteed upon their return. The brewery also sent them care packages containing chocolate and condensed milk.
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