NUMBER TO KNOW
1: The maximum time a high jumper has remained airborne is 1 second. An average human s hang time is about 0.53 seconds. Michael Jordan s longest hang time record is 0.92 seconds.
THIS DAY IN HISTORY
April 27, 1773: The British Parliament passes the unpopular Tea Act, a bill designed to save the faltering East India Company from bankruptcy by greatly lowering the tea tax it paid to the British government and, thus, granting it a de facto monopoly on the American tea trade.
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