The Paris Gun – The biggest gun of WWI. It was capable of firing a shell to a range of more than 70 miles
Soviet cosmonaut spent 10 months in space and when he came back to Earth the Soviet Union was dissolved
Leona Harriet Woods – The only female member of the team which built the world’s first nuclear reactor
Adrian Carton de Wiart – shot in the head, stomach, face, ankle, hip, leg and ear. He said he enjoyed the war!
The first winner of the 1904 Olympics marathon used a car, the second used drugs. It was the wildest race ever!
Hugh Thompson – American pilot who risked his own life to save Vietnamese villagers during the My Lai massacre