Hilarious Photos Of Beach Vacations Gone Wrong

The More You Know

• The 442nd Infantry Regiment, a largely Japanese American unit that served during WWII, did so while their families were held in internment camps. Their motto was "Go for Broke" and they were the most decorated unit in U.S. military history.
• The first American woman to go to medical school was admitted as a joke. Geneva Medical School thought it was joke when Elizabeth Blackwell applied to attend 1847. She graduated in 1849, started her own practice, and opened an infirmary for the poor.
• When the Super Bowl champion Giants visited the White House in 1987, they dumped popcorn on President Reagan.
• Where the Wild Things Are was supposed to have been about horses—but the illustrator couldn't draw them.