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Actress Geena Davis attempted to qualify for the 2000 Sydney Olympics in archery, finishing 24th out of 300 women, but did not make the Olympic team.

Lightbulbs in the NYC subway and other train systems use left-hand screws to deter theft for home use.

Alaska has a significantly higher missing persons rate, with 42.16 per 100,000 residents, compared to Arizona's 12.28, the second highest in the US.

In 1660, Zhuang Tinglong, a blind Chinese amateur historian, tried to publish a history of the Ming Dynasty, which was so poorly received that over 70 people were executed and thousands were arrested.

The FAA mandates that air traffic controller applicants must be younger than 31 and generally retire by age 56.

After Facebook turned down former Yahoo employee Brian Acton for a job in 2009, he and Jan Koum co-founded WhatsApp later that year. By 2014, WhatsApp had 450 million users worldwide, leading to its sale to Facebook in a deal that made them both multi-billionaires.

British musician Clive Wearing suffers from a condition that resets his memory every 20 seconds, causing him to always feel as though he has just awakened from the coma he entered in 1985 due to herpes encephalitis.

Due to an agreement between the National Archives and Caroline Kennedy, Jackie Kennedy's jacket from the day of John F. Kennedy's assassination cannot be publicly displayed until 2103.

In 1940, Paramount requested Fleischer Studios to produce a Superman cartoon, but Fleischer, considering it too challenging, quoted a budget four times the norm ($100,000), which Paramount unexpectedly accepted.

In 1959, Lt. Colonel William Rankin ejected from his plane into a violent thundercloud, where he remained aloft for 40 minutes, enduring hail and rain, and at times had to hold his breath to avoid drowning mid-air.

Sources: 641, 642, 643, 644, 645, 646, 647, 648, 649, 650

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