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On August 4, 1892, Andrew and Abby Borden were found brutally murdered in their home in Fall River, Massachusetts. Andrew Borden was discovered on the living room couch with his face nearly split in two from 11 axe blows. Abby Borden, his wife, was found upstairs with her head smashed by 18 axe blows. She had been killed about an hour before her husband. The only people home were 32-year-old Lizzie Borden, Andrew's daughter, and Bridget Sullivan, the family's Irish maid.

Lizzie Borden quickly became the main suspect. She had a bad relationship with her stepmother Abby and wanted the family to move to a nicer part of town. The day before the murders, Lizzie tried to buy poison (prussic acid) at a local drug store, claiming she needed it to clean a coat, but the pharmacist refused to sell it. A few days after the murders, Lizzie was seen burning a dress, saying it was stained with paint, though police suspected it might have blood on it.

The case became a national sensation because it was shocking that a well-bred, church-going woman from a wealthy family might have committed such violent crimes. Lizzie was arrested on August 11 and tried for double murder in June 1893. The all-male jury quickly found her not guilty because there wasn't enough solid evidence and they couldn't believe a proper lady could do such horrible things. No weapon was ever found, though a hatchet head was discovered in the basement.

Even though she was cleared, Lizzie remained suspected for the rest of her life. She lived in Fall River until she died in 1927, but most people avoided her. The case inspired a famous rhyme: "Lizzie Borden took an axe, and gave her mother forty whacks. When she saw what she had done, she gave her father forty-one." The house where the murders happened is now a bed and breakfast.

On August 4, 1944, 15-year-old Anne Frank and seven other Jews were captured by Nazi police in Amsterdam after hiding for 25 months in a secret room behind a bookcase. The German Security Police, led by SS officer Karl Silberbauer, raided the building at Prinsengracht 263 around 10:30 in the morning. Someone had likely tipped them off, but nobody knows for sure who betrayed them.

Anne and her family - Otto, Edith, and sister Margot Frank - had been hiding in the "Secret Annex" since July 1942 with the Van Pels family and Fritz Pfeffer. They were helped by Dutch friends who brought them food and supplies. Anne spent her time writing in a diary she got for her 13th birthday, describing daily life in hiding and her feelings about the war. Her last diary entry was on August 1, just three days before they were caught.

The raid was completely unexpected. Otto Frank was upstairs helping young Peter van Pels with schoolwork when police officers with guns suddenly burst in. All eight people in hiding were arrested, along with two of their helpers - Victor Kugler and Johannes Kleiman. The police took them away around 1 p.m. The whole raid took about two hours. Miep Gies, one of the helpers, later found Anne's diary papers scattered on the floor and saved them.

The eight people were first taken to a prison in Amsterdam, then to Westerbork transit camp in Holland, and finally to Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland in September 1944. In October, Anne and Margot were moved to Bergen-Belsen camp in Germany, where they both died of typhus in February 1945, just weeks before the camp was freed. Only Otto Frank survived the war. He published Anne's diary in 1947, and it became one of the most famous books about the Holocaust.

Day On Venus🌌
A day on Venus is longer than its year due to extremely slow rotation. Venus takes 243 Earth days to rotate once on its axis, but only 225 Earth days to orbit the Sun. This means a Venusian day lasts longer than a Venusian year - making Venus one of the most peculiar planets in our solar system regarding time measurement.

The First High Five🖐️
The high five was invented in 1977 during a baseball game between Glenn Burke and Dusty Baker at Dodger Stadium. When Baker hit a home run, Burke spontaneously raised his hand, and Baker slapped it. This single moment created what would become one of the world's most common celebratory gestures, spreading globally from that spontaneous baseball celebration.

Cards vs Atoms⚛️
There are more ways to arrange a deck of cards than atoms on Earth. The number of possible arrangements is 52 factorial, equaling roughly 8 × 10^67 - far exceeding the estimated 10^50 atoms that make up our entire planet. This means every shuffled deck throughout history has likely been a completely unique arrangement never seen before.

Ancient Sharks🦈
Sharks are older than trees - sharks have existed for about 400 million years, while trees appeared around 350 million years ago. This means sharks were swimming in ancient oceans for 50 million years before the first forests existed on land, making them living relics from an era when Earth's landscape was completely barren.

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