Ellen Macarthur, yachtswoman, had a total of 891 naps in 94 days that were each 36 minutes long while on her Vendee Round the Globe yacht race.

In Japan, the number four is considered to be unlucky because the Japanese word for four sounds very similar to the word death.

Wilhelm Rontgen won the first Nobel Prize for physics for discovering X-rays in 1895.

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