Silly Saturday Facts Collection No. 13

     Hello everybody and welcome back to another edition of Nations Made Fun! I'll be your host, Mr. Nations, your tour guide to this massive world we all call home! Today we'll be taking a look at yet another three fun facts for Silly Saturday, so let's dive straight into it!

• On January 15th, 1919 in Boston, Massachusets, a 90-foot tank of molasses ruptured and two-and-a-half million gallons of crude molasses exploded, submerging everything in its path. Despite what people think, it actually moved quickly, reaching a speed of 35 miles per hour.
• The book, The Young Visiters, was written by a young child at the age of nine.
• A mathematician's entire life work was reduced to 40 seconds. Mathematician William Shank devoted the better part of his life calculating the decimal points of pi. He calculated all the way to 707 decimal points. 60 years after his death, DF Ferguson used a calculator to determine that the last 180 decimal points were wrong. In 1958, an IBM computer did Shank's life work in a whopping 40 seconds.

     Sources: https://www.historyextra.com/period/stuart/history-facts-weird-wonderful-surprising-medieval-georgian-20th-century/