The Westar-6 satellite went into space twice.

In February 1984, it was launched by the shuttle. But its engine failed.

In November, the shuttle took it back, and in 1990 it was carried by a Chinese rocket (they were still allowed to carry U.S. cargo).

https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-51A

A list of famous people who officially don’t have a last name.

Can you imagine how difficult it is for them to use modern sites where there are two required inputs in sign-up forms?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_legally_mononymous_people

People want to create a time zone for the moon. Why? Because of the effect of gravity on time.

On the Moon gravity is less and time flows faster. Only by 0.02 seconds per year, but enough for a lunar radio telescope.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timekeeping_on_the_Moon

List of incidents of space debris falling to Earth.

For example, on March 8 of this year, a piece of battery that had been jettisoned from the ISS crashed into a man’s home in Florida.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_space_debris_fall_incidents

DNS-over-Wikipedia.

There are sites that fight censorship and constantly change their address. The Pirate Bay or Sci-Hub, for example.

This app will allow you to enter an address like sci-hub.idk, and it gets the last domain from Wikipedia.

https://github.com/aaronjanse/dns-over-wikipedia

The famous Smirnoff vodka was founded by a former slave.

Peter Smirnoff was born a slave peasant in Russian Empire, at 26 he got his freedom, at 29 he opened a small wine shop in Moscow.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyotr_Arsenievich_Smirnov

In 1973, one of the longest eclipses was to occur.

But that wasn’t enough for the scientists. They used a prototype Concorde and fly along the shadow of the Moon.

They ended up observing the eclipse for 74 minutes—10 times longer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_June_30,_1973

Countries are not just changing their time because of daylight saving time.

In Morocco, the time zone changes for Ramadan.

During this month, Muslims are not allowed to eat or drink during the day. The time change makes it easy to fast.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time_in_Morocco

Progressive chess is a chess variant in which players play progressively longer series of moves.

The game starts with White making one move, then Black makes two consecutive moves, White replies with three and so on.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_chess

Atomic chess is a chess variant where all captures result in an “explosion” through which the capturing piece, captured piece, and all surrounding pieces of both colors other than pawns are removed from play.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_chess

Despite the fact that Everest has already been conquered, there are still many mountains on Earth where people have not been able to climb (because the difficulty depends not only on the height).

The list of the highest unclimbed mountains.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highest_unclimbed_mountain

The oceans have been studied worse than space. And here’s a good example.

Deep-sea squid, 12 meters long (!). For the first time they were found in full form (before that only parts) only in 1988.

Now there are only isolated cases of meeting with them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigfin_squid

Boeing 747 crash in Amsterdam in 1992 - the plane had 2 engines fall off (!) and crashed into a house in the city.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Al_Flight_1862

List of films considered the worst

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_considered_the_worst

Hell icons are alleged icons with images of Devil hidden the painted layer. Also, the image of saints could include horns hidden under the paint.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell_icon

Black Book video game has not only the very correct image of old Russian Empire but also an episode about Hell icons

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Book_(video_game)

Yang Kyoungjong was a Korean soldier who fought in the Imperial Japanese Army, the Soviet Red Army, and later the German Wehrmacht during World War II.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yang_Kyoungjong

Many people know about the Spanish bullfight, where bulls are killed.

But we don't talk much about another cruel Spanish pastime. Spain has their own breed of dogs for hunting and the belief that the more brutally you kill your dog, the more successful will be the hunt next year.

Every year between 50,000 and 100,000 dogs are burned, hanged, and other medieval cruelties.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galgo_Espa%C3%B1ol

Not all countries use the same calendar today.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_calendars

“McGrady’s intention was to write a book that was both deliberately terrible and contained a lot of descriptions of sex, to illustrate the point that popular American literary culture had become mindlessly vulgar.

The book became a bestseller in 1969”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked_Came_the_Stranger