Did you know...

Soviet MiG aircraft (the ones they're always talking about in Top Gun) are named for the company that made them, the Mikoyan-and-Gurevich Design Bureau, founded by Artem Mikoyan and Mikhail Gurevich.

"I could tell you, but then I'd have to kill you."

Other interesting facts I’ve collected whilst falling down the black hole of the internet:

Do you know what the most widely-recognized word in the world is? Be thinking about that one. The answer appears at the end.

The iceberg that took down the Titanic was disguised by a mirage of haze, which also probably disguised the ship’s emergency flares from being seen by the Californian (the closer-by-than-the-Carpathia-ship that could have saved them all).

"Everyone, please stop blaming us!"

In chess, the knight can visit each square exactly once.

The distance covered by the total number of runs scored in major league baseball thus far (since 1871) would get you halfway to the moon.

(I must confess, I'm surprised it wouldn't get you further. Baseball games are interminable.)

NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building, where they assemble our spacecraft, is one of the largest buildings in the world by volume, and is the largest single-story building in the world. But the coolest part is that you have to keep the air conditioning on all the time, otherwise clouds will form in the roof of the building and it will start to rain inside.

The VAB with the Apollo 16 Saturn V rocket

In related news, this is how they transport the Shuttle. That does not look secure to me.

And finally…

The most widely-recognized word in the world is “okay.” Also, most etymologists agree that “okay” comes from an abbreviation of “oll korrect,” an alteration of “all correct” from the 1830s, when it was popular to facetiously alter the spellings of various words. Those crazy 19th-century people...