Carolyn Shoemaker, famous astronomer, has discovered 32 comets and approximately 300 asteroids.

French astronomer Adrien Auzout had once considered building a telescope that was 1,000 feet long in the 1600s. He thought the magnification would be so great, he would see animals on the moon.

Wham-O manufactured twenty-thousand hula-hoops a day at the peak of hula-hoop popularity in 1958.

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