The Harvard University Library once contained a book bound in human skin, and the size of the Earth compared to the Sun. How well do you know this week's fun facts?
The Harvard University Library once contained a book bound in human skin, and the size of the Earth compared to the Sun. How well do you know this week's fun facts?The original owner of the book, a doctor, sourced the binding from a deceased female patient at a hospital where he worked. According to him,"a book about the human soul deserved to have a human covering."Wheels were added to suitcases in 1970, one year after Neil Armstrong became the first person to walk on the Moon.
His teacher later bumped his grade to an A after the U.S. Congress accepted it as America’s national flag.Antarctic glaciers contain so much water that they would raise sea levels by 190 feet if they ever completely melted.While it took over a century for the human population to go from one to two billion people, it took just over a decade for seven billion to go to eight billion.
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