🥷
💡
💡 Fun Facts
💡

Ralph C Smith, the US last surviving WWII General, passed away in 1998 at the age of 104. He was a remarkable individual, having been the 13th person to receive a pilot s license and having been personally instructed by Orville Wright.

•1 min read


Fun Fact:

Ralph C Smith, the US’ last surviving WWII General, passed away in 1998 at the age of 104. He was a remarkable individual, having been the 13th person to receive a pilot’s license and having been personally instructed by Orville Wright.

Source favicon

Source

en.wikipedia.org

Share this fascinating fact! 🥷

Share on XDiscover more facts

💡More Fun Facts

Keep exploring and learning

about Jordan Romero a US Mountain Climber who at 13 was the youngest person to reach the summit of Mount Everest, having been too young to gain a permit from Nepal this climb was started from Tibet, China has since imposed minimum age limits for permits meaning this record cannot everbe broken

Read →

In 1978, Janet Parker was the last person to pass away due to smallpox. She was employed in a laboratory that was one of the last to be allowed to research the virus. When it was verified that Janet had contracted the virus, the doctor in charge of the lab, Henry Bedson, committed suicide.

Read →

Bobby Leach, the second person to ever go over Niagara Falls in a barrel, passed away a few years later after slipping on an orange peel and sustaining an injury to his leg that eventually became Gangrenous. His leg was amputated, but he still succumbed to the complications two months later.

Read →

Mark E Smith, the leader and frontman of post-punk band The Fall , was the only consistent member throughout the band s history, having gone through 66 different members. He famously stated that even if it was just him and someone s grandmother playing bongos, it would still be The Fall.

Read →

The amount of abdominal muscles someone has is determined by genetics, and can differ from person to person. The number of abdominal rings someone is born with can determine the amount of abs they have, with some people having up to 10-pack abs.

Read →

France employed the guillotine as a form of capital punishment until 1977, when Hamida Djandoubi became the last individual to be executed and the last person to be decapitated by a western country.

Read →
Explore All Fun Facts