14 Cool Facts about History

 1. The Wright Brothers only flew together once (though both piloted the planes individually): on May 25, 1910 they took a six-minute flight piloted by Orville with Wilbur as his passenger.

2. no matter their size, naval tradition declares submarines be called “boats” instead of “ships.”

3. Hedy Lamar was a famous Hollywood film actress who also invented what became modern-day Wi-Fi.

4. Disney started sketching regularly when he was just four years old.

5. Lincoln lost five separate elections before he became president of the U.S. (Never, ever, ever give up!)

6. Picasso entered conservatory round the age of 10. The Picasso Museum in Barcelona, Spain includes many “early works” from his childhood.

7. Douglass taught himself to read and write.

8. Before European contact (which caused populations to diminish rapidly ) California indigenous tribal groups spoke quite 200 unique dialects.

9. Earhart first saw a plane at the age of 10, but didn't take an airplane ride until 1920 when she was 23 years old.

10. Abe Lincoln was knowledgeable wrestler long before he became the 16th President of the us .

11. After landing in Ireland after her first solo Atlantic flight, a farmer asked Earhart where she was from. When she said America, he almost didn't believe her!

12. Douglass birth name was Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey. When he married he chose the surname Douglass after the hero clan in Sir Walter Scott's famous poem, Lady of the Lake.

13. Frida Kahlo created 143 paintings. Of these, 55 were self-portraits.

14. Ruth was the primary ballplayer to hit a home run within the All-Star game, at Chicago’s Comiskey Park in 1933.

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