Space New 🖊️ A broken switch nearly kept Apollo 11 on the Moon, and Buzz Aldrin fixed it with a felt-tip pen #290Read the fact Mind & Brain New 🔁 Say a word often enough and it turns into noise: a psychologist named this in 1962 #289Read the fact Creepy New 🦇 In 1931, a second Dracula was filmed at night on the same sets, and some critics like it better #288Read the fact Halloween New Halloween's rise in Germany has to do with the carnival that was called off in 1991 #287Read the fact Art & Forgeries New 🗿 At 21, Michelangelo passed off a statue as an antique, and it landed him his first patron in Rome #286Read the fact Records & Extremes New ⏳ This experiment has been running since 1927, and only 9 drops have fallen #285Read the fact Ocean & Deep Sea New 🌊 There are lakes on the seafloor, with their own shoreline #284Read the fact Countries & Places New 🧊 Canada and Denmark argued over a tiny island for 49 years, with flags and bottles of booze #283Read the fact Money & Economy New 🔥 In 1834, burning old wooden receipts set the British Parliament on fire #282Read the fact Crime & Mysteries New 🍁 Thieves stole maple syrup worth about 18 million Canadian dollars and left water in the barrels #281Read the fact Myths & Misconceptions New 🌍 People in the Middle Ages did not think the Earth was flat #280Read the fact 🚀 Ad Goes with the latest fact: A broken switch nearly kept Apollo 11 on the Moon, and Buzz Aldrin fixed it with a felt-tip pen LEGO Apollo 11 lunar lander A detailed model of the lunar module to build and put on a shelf. View on Amazon (Ad)