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Hidden Figures

This 2016 biography documents the lives of three women named Katherine Johnson (Taraji P. Henson), Dorothy Vaughn (Octavia Spencer), and Mary Jackson (Janelle Monae). These three Black women were the sole reason that NASA was able to perform the proper calculations to send a man to the moon in the 1960s. These unsung heroes have only recently been recognized as historical figures of substantial magnitude.

The More You Know

Arkansas hosts the annual World Championship Duck Calling Contest.
Following the release of Rocky IV, a joke was making rounds in Hollywood. Since Rocky had run out of opponents, he would have to fight an alien if a fifth movie was made. Jim and John Thomas took the joke seriously and wrote a screenplay based on it, which later became the movie "Predator".
The youngest parents in the world were aged 8 and 9.
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