CUBAN OLYMPIAN WASN'T FOCUSED

Cuban postman Felix Carvajal should have won the 1904 Olympic marathon, according to several observers. Instead, he only placed fourth. The problem? Carvajal made many stops along the course to chat with spectators. At one point, he even took a break to pick some apples and eat them. More than half of that year’s competitors were unable to finish the marathon because of the heat. But Carvajal had a grand old time.

The first photographs of another planet came from Mariner 4 in July 1965. The planet was Mars.

The original formula for pewter required four parts tin and one part lead.

The average jack rabbit is known to hit a top speed of nearly 40 miles per hour.

A match between All Star New York and Brooklyn was the first baseball game to charge admission. It was held at Fashion Race Course on Long Island in 1857, and the cost was 50 cents per person.

The British Isles are home to six native languages: English, Scots Gaelic, Welsh, Irish Gaelic, Manx and a French patois in the Channel Islands. Cornish used to be part of the list, but its last native speaker died at the end of the 19th century.