Inspiring achievements: 25 brief but informative facts
Twitter user @FactBuffet collects interesting facts about everything. Today we bring to your attention another series of facts that he shared. This time they are all dedicated to people and their achievements – in a variety of areas of life!
As a child, Ronald McNair (an American astronaut who tragically died at the launch of the Challenger in 1986) was forbidden to use the library "for whites". Now this library bears his name
In November 2020, for the first time, an athlete with Down syndrome passed the entire series of Ironman triathlon competitions
Malala Yousafzai was the first teenager in history to receive the Nobel Prize. This happened in 2014, when she was 17 years old
Until 2018, no woman was nominated for an Oscar for Best cinematography. Cinematographer Rachel Morrison was the first
The first woman to win 4 gold medals at the Olympic Games Did It when She was Pregnant
Mountaineer Yuichiro Miura skied down Everest in 1970. He also, later, conquered Everest at the age of 80
The first person from Asia to win the Oscar for Best Director was Taiwanese film director Ang Lee (in fact, he did it twice)
A 4-year-old boy from Seychelles has written and published a book
Hector Castro was a football player from Uruguay. In 1928 he won the Olympic gold medal, and in 1930 he scored the decisive goal that brought Uruguay its first victory at the FIFA World Cup. And he didn't have one arm
David Attenborough has won three Emmy Awards in a row in the category "Outstanding Storyteller"
Lebanese sculptor Hayat Nazer created a statue from the debris collected after the Beirut explosion
Israeli schoolchildren built a satellite, which was launched into space in 2017
Im Dong Hyun won two Olympic gold medals in archery. At the same time, he is visually impaired: he sees only 10% of what a person with normal vision can see
Godzilla has Its own Star on the Hollywood Walk of Stars
The first Guinness Book of Records was compiled by twin brothers Ross and Norris Mcverter
Fantastic Beasts and Where They Live was the first film about the Harry Potter universe to win an Oscar
In Moldova, for the first time, a woman became president – Maya Grigorievna Sandu. She was sworn in on December 24, 2020
Danny DeVito played a stripper in one of the episodes of the TV series "Friends". And received an Emmy Award for this role
This is Ansu Fati, a football player from Guinea-Bissau, who plays in the Spanish national team and is worth hundreds of millions of euros. He is only 18 years old
In 2020, for the first time in history, the prestigious Australian prize – the Archibald Prize – was won by an Aboriginal artist
Basketball was invented by James Naismith. He was a rugby coach and came up with an activity for his rugby players to keep them in good shape during the summer months
The series "The Sopranos Clan" has received more than a hundred Emmy nominations
The creator of the Rubik's cube was Erne Rubik. He was a Hungarian inventor, sculptor and professor of architecture
The first special royal blood in space was Prince Sultan bin Salman from Saudi Arabia. In 1985, he spent 7 days in space
Alec Guinness was nominated for an Oscar for his role as Obi-Wan Kenobi. This is the only time (to date) that someone has received an Oscar nomination for acting in Star Wars