Kubrick’s last film, ‘Eyes Wide Shut’ broke records for being the longest continuous film shoot at 400 days
At the first international Olympic Games held in modern history, winners were given a silver medal, while runners-up received a copper medal
Pankration was the Ancient Olympics version of Mixed Martial Arts, and it is the only discipline not reinstated with the creation of Modern Olympics in 1896
Albert Einstein spent 7 years of his adult life trying to improve home refrigeration technology, he invented a refrigerator with no moving parts
Kenzō Tange, one of the most influential architects of the 20-th century, had very poor results in math and physics
When Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud met for the first time, they talked for thirteen hours, virtually without stopping
The Red Army troops dynamited the strategically important Dneprostroi Dam during WWII, as Germany invaded the Soviet Union
The Hundred Flowers Movement was the first open criticism in the history of the People’s Republic of China