The chills experienced when listening to music is a result of the brain releasing dopamine in anticipation of the peak moment during a song.
A Russian 4 year old left his abusive parents to live with a pack of wild dogs. Before his capture by police, he became the pack leader and escaped authorities three times. He later studied in Military School and served in the Russian Army.
John Lennon once called an ‘emergency board meeting’ of the Beatles in order to inform his bandmates that he’d realized, while tripping on acid, that he was the second coming of Jesus.
Despite being on hard times, one of the US most decorated war veterans repeatedly turned down offers to appear in Alcohol and Tobacco commercials because he knew it would be a bad role model for young people. The soldier, Audie Murphy, had earned every single US Army Award for combat in WWII.
Leonard Nimoy fought to get pay equity for Nichelle Nichols on Star Trek in the 1960s.
Károly Takács, a right handed Hungarian shooter, severely injured his right (shooting) hand in a grenade explosion. He retrained himself with his left hand and went on to win 2 Olympic Golds 10 years later.
Some aboriginal languages have no words for left/right. As a result, instead of ordering a sequence of images showing someone getting older from left to right, like English speakers would, they order them from east to west, regardless of what way they are facing themselves.
1880 - Salvation Army of England sets up US welfare and religious activity
1888 - 1st performance of Caesar Franck's "Psyche"
1896 - Charilaos Vasilakos of Greece wins 1st modern marathon in 3:18 [OS]
1906 - Coal dust explosion kills 1,060 at Courrieres France
1945 - Germany blows-up Wessel Bridge on Rhine
1985 - India beat Pakistan to win "World Championship of Cricket"
1880 - Michael Jacobs, boxing promoter, born in NYC, New York
1918 - Heywood Hale Broun, journalist
1932 - Anatoliy Roschin, USSR, super heavyweight wrestler (Olympic-gold-1972)
1933 - Bernadetta Matuszczak, composer
1970 - Antonio Edwards, NFL defensive end (Seattle Seahawks)
1977 - Bree Turner, American dancer and actress
1901 - Vasily Georgiyevich Wrangell, composer, dies at 38
1950 - Marguerite De La Motte, American actress (b. 1902)
1951 - Kijūrō Shidehara, Prime minister of Japan (b. 1872)
1993 - David Gunn, abortion doctor, killed by Michael Griffin at 47
1995 - Carel Birnie, ballet producer, dies at 69
1996 - Ross Hunter, US producer (Airport, Madame X, Pillow Talk), dies at 75
