Who Made It?

Your nose can smell at least 1 trillion scents. Scientists had long assumed our noses could distinguish about 10,000 odors. Human beings tend to think of themselves as visual first, auditory second, then touch and taste.

Diana Nyad became the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida. She accomplished this feat, without a shark cage or fins, on September 2, 2013. She had attempted the 103-mile journey four times before. It took her 52 hours, 54 minutes, and 18.6 seconds.

Do you like smothering your French fries in ketchup? You might not know it, but ketchup was actually once used to cure some medical ailments such as diarrhea and indigestion. A doctor in Ohio even once invented a concentrated ketchup pill!