Fun Fact

James Madison was the shortest U.S. president, at five feet, four inches tall (163 centimeters). He is estimated to have weighed 100 pounds (forty-five kilograms).

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The Mars Opportunity rover continued to make scientific observations and report back to Earth until June 2018. More than 13 years beyond the duration of activity for which it was designed.

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Copies of Life magazine sold in two days, when the magazine published an excerpt from Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man in the Sea on September 1, 1952. widely considered Hemingway’s finest work, the novel was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1953.