Michael Edwards, later known as Eddie the Eagle, grew up in Cheltenham, England. His parents and grandparents worked as plasterers.

In Nagaizumi, Shizuoka, Japan, lies the world’s smallest officially recognized park, measuring just 50 centimeters (20 inches) square.

In January 1964, 22-year-old Cassius Clay trained in a small Miami Beach gym, preparing for his fight against Sonny Liston, the reigning heavyweight champion.

The “Curse of the Ninth” is a long-standing superstition in classical music suggesting that a composer’s ninth symphony would be their last.

Between 1993 and 2009, police in Germany, Austria, and France believed they were hunting one of Europe’s most elusive criminals.

Paternoster lifts are unique passenger elevators made of continuously moving open compartments, usually designed for two people each.

On January 24, 1984, at the Flint Center in Cupertino, California, a 28-year-old Steve Jobs stepped onstage in a tuxedo to introduce the Macintosh, Apple’s long-anticipated personal computer.

In May 1945, as World War II drew to a close, Captain Robert Posey and Private First Class Lincoln Kirstein entered the Altaussee salt mine in Austria’s Alps.

In 1916, Vermont inventor Albert Bacon Pratt patented a device unlike anything seen before: a helmet with an integrated firearm.

Sarah Biffin was born on 25 October 1784 in East Quantoxhead, Somerset, with phocomelia, leaving her without arms and with undeveloped legs.