Looking to pick up a musical instrument? Try the ukelele. It's cheap, extremely portable, and if you wear a fedora while playing it, women may mistake you for Jason Mraz.

While we didn't actually look any of this up to back it up, we all vaguely remembered being told in elementary school that falcons were the fasted birds in the world, topping out at over 200 MPH in free fall. They pounce on pray so hard they can split the bones of frogs and mice and shit on impact. Pretty bad-ass, hope it's accurate.

1953: The US conducts its first and only nuclear artillery test. The research is later discontinued because of all the boners the scientists kept getting.

1935: Jesse Owens breaks 3 world records and ties a 4th in under an hour at the 1935 Big Ten track meet. Greatest sports moment ever probably.