In 2014, scientists discovered the earliest evidence of human footprints in Europe, on the Norfolk coast in the east of England. The footprints were found on the shores of Happisburgh and were more than 800,000 years old.

The founder of IKEA, Ingvar Feodor Kamprad, started his career at age six, selling matches. At the age of 10, he was going around the neighborhood on his bike, selling Christmas decorations. Then, at the age of 17, he was getting money from selling fish and pencils. Finally, after his father gave him a small sum of money for doing well in school, he started IKEA.

In 2012, a Swedish man named Peter Skyllberg survived for two months in a snowed-in car by eating snow and staying warm in a sleeping bag.

The farthest flight on a hoverboard was 900 feet and was achieved by Alexandru Duru in Quebec, Canada, on August 25, 2014.

The first person to ever go over Niagara Falls and survive was 63-year-old school teacher Annie Edson Taylor back in 1901.

Beethoven began losing his hearing at the age of 28, so he cut the legs off his piano so that he could sit on the floor and compose music by feeling the vibrations of the piano.

According to the Guinness World Records, the oldest message in a bottle spent 108 years, four months, and 18 days at sea. It was put in the sea by the Marine Biological Association in the United Kingdom in November of 1906. It washed ashore on Amrum Island in Germany on April 17, 2015.

Jason Lewis journeyed around the world between 1994 and 2007 by biking, rollerblading, kayaking, and pedaling. He became the first person to circumnavigate the globe by pure human power.

On May 31, 2014, according to the Guinness World Records, 104 volunteers at the Deer Run Camping Resort in Gardners, Pennsylvania, made the largest  s’more ever. It weighed a whopping 267 pounds.