The Jacuzzi was invented in 1968 after Candido Jacuzzi’s son was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis. Candido witnessed the benefits of hydrotherapy on his son and invented a portable water pump and put it in their house.
The original sole of Nike’s running shoe was made with Nike co-founder Bill Bowerman’s wife’s waffle iron as he believed it would help runner increase their speed. Nike made 12 versions of the shoes and sent them to runners to use in the 1972 Olympic trials.
In 2019, the aforementioned “waffle shoe” sold for $475,000 at auction. Canadian entrepreneur Miles Nadal bought the shoes at an auction of the world’s 100 rarest sneakers. The other 99 pairs sold for a combined $850,000. The buyer? Miles Nadal.
The first believed American serial killer, H.H. Holmes, is believed to have killed 27 people in his “Murder Castle”. In order to transport the bodies to the basement where he would dissect them, he created an elaborate system of secret passageways, trapdoors, and elevators.
Holmes, who changed his name in honor of Sherlock Holmes, came from a wealthy family and enrolled in medical school around 1880. Before moving to Chicago and building his “Murder Castle”, Holmes was arrested for robbing graves to sell the cadavers inside.
It is impossible to drink beer in space. Due to the carbonation, the bubbles that would normally be burped out go into the astronaut’s digestive system and cause severe pain.
In some areas of Australia, rabbits are considered to be pests and are illegal to own. The only exceptions are for people who use them in public exhibitions like magic acts or for scientific use.
After Rosa Parks was robbed and assaulted in her Detroit apartment in 1994, Little Caesars Pizza owner Mike Ilitch helped to find her a new place to live and paid for her rent until she passed away.
In 1945, a crossword puzzle contained answers that turned out to be code names for D-Day military operations. Officials in England panicked, thinking that their cover would be blown if enemies completed the crossword.
The writer of the crossword, Leonard Dawe, was a headmaster at a boarding school adjacent to the military training facility. Sometimes he would ask the boys for a word but also included words that he heard yelled during military trainings. He was later arrested but was found innocent of any wrongdoing.
While he was not officially CPR certified, an Arizona man named Cross Scott saved a woman’s life by utilizing the CPR technique used on The Office. Scott even sang the Bee Gees’ “Stayin’ Alive” to keep the correct 100 beats per minute tempo for chest compressions.
In 1992, after the fall of the USSR, Lithuania was released as a territory of the Soviet Union. Able to play for their home country once again in the Olympics, the Lithuanian team was ready to compete but did not have the money to fund the trip.
The Hays Code, which prohibited nudity, profanity, and interracial or gay relationships in movies was struck down in 1968 after Marilyn Monroe’s 1959 film “Some Like It Hot” became a box office hit without the Hays seal of approval.
After reading an article in the San Francisco Chronicle, The Grateful Dead sponsored the team and designed a yellow, red, and green jerseys for the team to wear with the band’s signature skeleton dunking a basketball. Lithuania would go on to beat Russia for the bronze medal and wore the warm-ups as they accepted their medals.
Believed to be the world’s longest book, Marcel Proust’s A La recherche du temps perdu is a whipping 9,609,000 characters.
About 200 feral cats live at Disneyland to take care of any rodents around the park. While guests are not encouraged to interact with the felines, there is a dedicated crew of cast members assigned to take care of them.
After Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys drowned in 1983, the band reached out to one of their fans, President Ronald Reagan, and requested that Wilson be buried at sea. As all burials-at-sea must be approved by admirals or military officials, Reagan approved the burial and Wilson was laid to rest in January of 1984.
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By 1945 D-Day was already six months in the past (6th June 1944) so it would have made no difference