
Mount Everest is getting taller.
It rises by about 2.5 centimeters each year.
Mount Everest is getting taller.
It rises by about 2.5 centimeters each year.
At the time of its construction, the Washington Monument was the tallest building in the world.
Mount Rushmore is incomplete. Artist Gutzon Borglum had planned to sculpt the four presidents from head to waist, but he died before he could finish the job.
Miss America by hair color, 1921-2003:
Celebrities saved by the Heimlich maneuver:
In today’s dollars, the Taj Mahal cost more than $500 million.
On Aug. 10, 2003, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko became the first person to be married in space.
He was in the international space station, 240 miles over New Zealand, when he married Ekaterina Dmitrieva, who was in Texas.
Deaths of selected Burmese kings:
Draw your own conclusions.
Up to 2,000 people a year lose their coats in Grand Central Station.