How Ford Put A Mustang High Up On The Empire State Building
Today in 1965, there was an unusual visitor high atop New York’s famous Empire State Building: a Ford Mustang. And it took some doing to get it up there.
The Hearing Car Is Testing Whether Self-Driving Vehicles Need More Senses On The Road
Autonomous vehicles have high-tech systems to see “see” what’s around them on the roads. A project in Germany asks if these cars also need to be listening to what’s around them too.
A Radio Show In Tennessee Told Listeners They Had To Recycle Their Old-Style $20 Bills
As a Halloween week prank in 1998, DJs in Tennessee said people had to exchange their old $20 bills for the new ones, or they would become worthless.
Otto The Octopus Was Really Good At Getting Into Mischief
For World Octopus Day, the story of Otto, who proved that not only is an octopus clever, it can be a little too clever.
Nadia Sparkes Started Picking Up Litter On The Way To School And Became “Trash Girl”
A young person in the UK made pretty much every day a cleanup day.
How Pink Floyd Got A Man On Fire Onto An Album Cover
Pink Floyd's album Wish You Were Here is a landmark both musically and visually, thanks to its fiery, one of a kind cover.
Most School Buses Are Bright Yellow For Exactly The Reasons You’d Probably Expect
The buses kids will start using this fall will be very similar to ones dating back to 1939, when a bunch of experts chose a bright shade of yellow as the standard school bus color.
Before Humans Ever Went To Space, A Mom In France Tried Training Her Son To Be An Astronaut
Newspaper articles in the 1920s featured the six year old who was training to go into space before humans even figured out how to do it.
Inventor Becky Schroeder Had A Patent Before She Was A Teenager
https://open.spotify.com/episode/093dU0HlVXv7rwc35RMKHz?si=c2a3858ce1344708 Today in 1974, the US issued a patent to one Becky Schroeder, an extremely inventive kid. I mean, not many of us have our very own patent at [...]
A Formerly Enslaved Man Roasted His Former Master In A Classic Letter
Today in 1865, newspapers published "Letter From A Freedman To His Old Master," Jordan Anderson's note perfect response to a guy who probably shouldn’t have written to him in the first place.