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She Gave the Statue of Liberty Its Voice. On Dedication Day, No One Read a Word of It.

The First Person to Survive Niagara Falls in a Barrel Was a 63-Year-Old Schoolteacher.

She Invented the Game That Became Monopoly. A Salesman Got the Credit. She Got $500.

He Built the Rocket That Launched the Space Age. His Own Country Kept His Name a Secret.

He Commanded the Largest Fleet in History — 80 Years Before Columbus. Then a New Emperor Buried the Evidence.

She Was Hollywood's Most Beautiful Woman. She Was Also Inventing the Technology Behind Your Phone.

His Ship Was Crushed by Antarctic Ice. His 27 Men Were Stranded for 22 Months. Every Single One Survived.

In 1518, Hundreds of People in One City Began Dancing Uncontrollably. They Couldn't Stop. Some Died. Nobody Knows Why.

He Invented the Engine That Powers the Modern World. He Died Poor. You've Never Heard His Name.

The Shortest War in History Lasted 38 Minutes. One Side Had a Palace and a Royal Yacht. The Other Had the British Navy.

Five Stories History Almost Forgot

He Was the Wealthiest Person in History. On His Way to Mecca, He Accidentally Crashed the Egyptian Economy.

She Rode Twice as Far as Paul Revere on the Same Night. You've Never Heard Her Name.

A Ship Was Found Drifting in the Atlantic in 1872. Fully Stocked. Perfectly Seaworthy. Nobody On Board.

He Had a Gold Nose, a Pet Elk, and Data That Changed Astronomy Forever. Meet Tycho Brahe.

Lightning Struck Him Seven Times. He Kept Showing Up for Work.

She Fell Two Miles From a Disintegrating Plane on Christmas Eve. Then She Walked Out of the Amazon Alone.

He Taught Himself Mathematics From a Single Book. Then He Rewrote the Rules of the Subject Entirely.

In 1919, Boston Was Hit by a Tidal Wave Moving at 35 Miles Per Hour. It Was Made of Molasses.

A Hairdresser Invented a Material That Could Withstand a Nuclear Flash. Then He Took the Secret to His Grave.

Pluto Was Named by an Eleven-Year-Old Girl Eating Breakfast. Then History Forgot to Mention Her.

He Cut Deaths from 13% to 1%. They Destroyed Him.

He Could Not Read or Write. So He Invented an Entire Language.

He Had Ten Minutes to Decide Whether the World Would End. He Chose to Wait.

She Survived the Titanic. Then the Britannic. Then Kept Showing Up for Work.

In 1945, the War Ended. Nobody Told Hiroo Onoda.