In 1958, the United States Coast Guard off western Greenland measured the tallest known iceberg at five hundred and fifty feet.

Boeing completed more than 15,000 hours of wind-tunnel testing on the first 747.

The movie "Cleopatra" cost $44 million to make in 1963. The same movie would now cost $300 million to make taking inflation into account.

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