In 1951, a 66 year old man wasn’t allowed to enter a 1800km (1118 miles) long bicykle race due to being to old. He showed up anyways and won the race by biking for days without sleep. He got the nickname ”Grandpa Steel”.3yr ⋅ Tom_Grace ⋅ r/ImpressiveStuff
In 2020, two rival Mexican drug cartels decided to have a friendly soccer match in a prison. The match ended with 16 deaths and 5 injuries.3yr ⋅ Tom_Grace ⋅ r/ImpressiveStuff
The largest treasure hoard in Britain was accidentally found by a man when he set out with a metal detector to find a hammer he had lost in a farm. It was a 1500 year old treasure hoard hidden by the Romans. The British government rewarded him with £1.75 million. He found his hammer afterwards.3yr ⋅ Tom_Grace ⋅ r/ImpressiveStuff
It would take 1,200,000 mosquitoes, each sucking once, to completely drain the average human of blood.3yr ⋅ Tom_Grace ⋅ r/ImpressiveStuff
Sister Mary Kenneth Keller was the first woman to get a Ph.D in computer science.3yr ⋅ Tom_Grace ⋅ r/interesting
Out of the top 30 100m sprint times, only 9 were run by athletes not associated with doping, all 9 are by Usain Bolt.3yr ⋅ Tom_Grace ⋅ r/interesting
A scientist cracked his knuckles on one hand for over 50 years to prove it did not cause Arthritis.3yr ⋅ Tom_Grace ⋅ r/interesting
You may be cool but you will never be the first human in space sipping a drink at the same table as the first woman in space cool. Gagarin/Tereshkova, '63.3yr ⋅ Tom_Grace ⋅ r/interesting
If wasps decide they don't like you they drop pheromones on you so that other wasps don't like you either.3yr ⋅ Tom_Grace ⋅ r/interesting
Albert Einstein’s eyeballs are in New York City: They were given to Henry Abrams and preserved in a safety deposit box. Abrams was Einstein’s eye doctor. He received the eyeballs from Thomas Harvey, the man who performed the autopsy on Einstein and illegally took the scientist’s brain for himself.3yr ⋅ Tom_Grace ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
