A Dangerous Disorder
In other parts of the world, being an albino is dangerous. For example, in Tanzania, albinos are persecuted or hunted. Albino children are seen as a bad omen and unlucky and are treated poorly as a result.
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The More You Know
- Commercial flights were allowed to fly any course to their destination and would often detour over points of interest. This ended in 1956 when two planes crashed mid-flight over the Grand Canyon.
- 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 largest volcano in the solar system is three times taller than Mount Everest.
- John Tyler, the 10th president of the United States, was born in 1790. He has a grandson that is alive today.