The underwater mating song of the toadfish is so loud that sometimes it can be heard by humans on the shore.
Socrates, Nero, Mark Anthony, Cleopatra, Vincent van Gogh, and Adolf Hitler all committed suicide.
On June 16, 1456, King Charles VII of France annulled a judgment of heresy against Joan of Arc, 25 years after she had been burnt at the stake.
Mary Todd Lincoln was so disliked in her day that she was nicknamed "The She-Wolf."
Benjamin Franklin compiled a list of more than 200 synonyms for "drunk," including cherry-merry, nimptopsical, and soaked.
In California, on June 3, 1948, Mount Palomar's huge telescope was finally put into service. Using state-of-the-art technology, it was under construction for 20 years. Twice the size of the large telescopes of the time, it reigned as the world's largest optical telescope for longer than two decades. It was also the first to be equipped with a Pyrex lens, which weighed 14.5 tons — until then, Pyrex had only been used to make cookware. The wealthiest family in the U.S., the Rockefellers, had been persuaded by American astronomer George Hallery Hale to finance the $6 million project.
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