Actress Janet Carroll is best remembered for her roles in the films Risky Business, Forces of Nature, Enough, and Family Business. She died of brain cancer on May 22, 2012 at the age of 71.
1906 – The Wright brothers were granted U.S. patent number 821,393 for their "Flying-Machine".
Fact of the Day
When performing a kidney transplant, surgeons leave the old kidney(s) in place unless they’re causing complications.
Nature Oddities
Mice can survive extremely long falls their terminal velocity is about 25 feet per second, which is about the speed a skydiver falls with an open parachute.
Food and Drink
After the Boston Tea Party, many Americans switched to drinking coffee during the Revolutionary War because consuming tea was seen as unpatriotic.