3914 David Peter Reimer-Identical twin boys were raised as a brother-sister pair due to a botched circumcision. The truth came out when David Peter Reimer, being raised as a girl insisted he was a boy. The parents admitted he was the subject of an experiment trying to prove gender identity was nurture, not nature. He later committed suicide.
3262 Apache pilot-To train each Apache pilot from scratch costs £3 million. It takes six months just to learn how to fly it, another six to know how to fight in it, and a final six to be passed combat ready. That is if you are already a fully qualified, combat-trained army helicopter pilot. Flying an Apache almost always means both hands and feet doing four different things at once.
Over 99% of Koreans have the mutation called ABCC11 which alters the composition of sweat so that they do not produce body odor.
3009 Schindler's List-When Spielberg first showed John Williams a cut of Schindler’s List, Williams was so moved he had to take a walk outside to collect himself. Upon his return, Williams told Spielberg he deserved a better composer. Spielberg replied, “I know, but they're all dead.”
3215 Lord Acton-Lord Acton’s famous quote 'Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.' is immediately followed by 'Great men are almost always bad men'.
972 Buck Shelford
2791 Autism-Autism is not actually on the rise. Studies have shown that the apparent increase in autism cases stems from changes in how physicians define “autism.”
3957 Henry Dow-Henry Dow, founder of Dow Chemical, broke a German Monopoly on bromine by buying chemicals in America that the Germans were selling at a loss to put him out of business. He then resold the cheaply bought chemical from America to Germany for a profit.
1794 Good Will Hunting
Ulysses S. Grant not only created the Department of Justice, he also supported the Fifteenth Amendment and asked Congress to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1871, allowing him to combat and prosecute the Ku Klux Klan.
