In 2023, Gordon Boettger broke the world record with a glider, covering a distance of 3000km in 17 hours with the help of night vision goggles and oxygen supply.
Fireworks rituals were linked to exorcising spirits. Fireworks began in ancient China as a way to drive away evil spirits before becoming a fun global celebration.
In the 1883 Krakatoa eruption, multiple groups of human corpses floated from modern-day Indonesia across the Indian Ocean on rafts of volcanic pumice, washing up on Africa’s east coast up to a year later.
