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10 storeys high, with its peak at 42 m (138 ft). It will go on to be dwarfed by later builds, but is gargantuan for its day.

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Ushering in a new era for mass media, French daily Le Petit Journal surpasses the 1-million
circulation mark. Its popularity is likely a result of its small format and low price.

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The first crossword was originally called a “word-cross” • The construction

of crosswords is termed “cruciverbalism” • Modern sudoku was invented

by Howard Garns (USA), although he called it “Number Place”

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Oldest surviving film 1888 DATELINE
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DATELINE 1889 First production car factory
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factory in France. Their first production car is ready by the following year.

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DATELINE 1901 First Nobel prizes
On 10 Dec, the first of the world-famous awards are given for
contributions to Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Literature and Peace.

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First land-speed record set with an internal combustion engine 1902 DATELINE
On 5 Aug, millionaire playboy William K Vanderbilt, driving a Mors
racing car, achieves a speed of 76.08 mph (122.43 km/h) in Ablis, France.

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DATELINE 1903 First power-driven flight
At 10:35 a.m. on 17 Dec, Orville Wright (USA) flies the 9-kW (12-hp) chain-driven Flyer I, built with his brother Wilbur, for
120 ft (36.5 m) near Kitty Hawk in North Carolina, USA. The flight lasts for about 12 sec, at an altitude of 8–12 ft (2.4–3.6 m).

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DOMES 166
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On 26 Jan, a 3,106-carat diamond is found at the Premier Diamond Mine, near Pretoria in South
Africa. It is later named “The Cullinan” and presented to the reigning British monarch, Edward VII.

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The Story of the Kelly Gang, made in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, opens at the city’s town hall on 26 Dec.
A biopic of the notorious armoured bushranger Ned Kelly, it proves to be a big hit with audiences.

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Energy released from the disintegration of a meteoroid over the basin of the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in

Russia on 30 Jun is equivalent to 10–15 megatons of explosive. It devastates an area of 3,900 km² (1,505 sq mi).

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DATELINE 1909 First people to reach the North Pole
On 6 Apr, Robert Peary and Matt Henson (both USA) reach the North Pole, having trekked from Ellesmere Island in
Canada. Historians are unsure if they reached the exact pole, but they certainly came much closer than their rivals.

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In 1979, Germany’s Eija-Riitta Eklöf-Berliner-Mauer “married” the Berlin Wall

(her surname means “Berlin Wall”!) • In 2011, competitive wallpapering

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On 21 Aug, Leonardo da Vinci’s priceless painting Mona Lisa disappears from the Louvre in

Paris, France. It is returned in 1913, and Vincenzo Peruggia (ITA) is charged with its theft.

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MAZES

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DATELINE 1912 First parachute jump from a moving aircraft
On 1 Mar, Captain Albert Berry (USA) leaps from a biplane flying some 15,000 ft (460 m) above
St Louis in Missouri, USA, and makes a safe landing on the grounds of Jefferson Barracks.

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The word “maze” derives from an old English word meaning “delusion”

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so big that some visitors got lost in it and had to call 911 for assistance

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First industrial moving assembly line 1913 DATELINE
On 7 Oct, the Ford Motor Company (USA) opens its factory in Highland Park, Michigan. Here, the car moves
on a conveyor through the factory, passing workstations where specific parts are fitted until it is complete.

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DATELINE 1916 Most powerful steam locomotive
Baldwin Locomotive Works (USA) builds No. 700 – a triple-articulated six-cylinder 2–8–8–8–4 tank engine. It has a tractive force (the
force exerted at the rim of the driving wheel) of 166,300 lb (75,432 kg) working compound and 199,560 lb (90,519 kg) working simple.

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The Mammoth water coaster is more than seven times longer than a 747 jumbo jet

• The largest wave pool is 2.5 times larger than a US football pitch • In 2014, visitors

to the most visited water park outnumbered the population of Houston, Texas

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TALLEST WATER SLIDE

Verrückt at Schlitterbahn Waterpark
in Kansas City, Kansas, USA,
measured 51.38 m (168 ft 7 in) tall as
of 18 Apr 2014. That makes it almost
as tall as Niagara Falls. It took more
than two years to create the ride.

First non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean 1919 DATELINE
On 14 Jun, John William Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown (both UK) take off from St John’s in Newfoundland,

Canada, in a Vickers Vimy biplane. The pair land near Clifden in Ireland some 16 hr 12 min later.

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Longest also the highest tunnel-to-
tunnel-to-tunnel bridge tunnel bridge. It opened in
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Jishou in Hunan, China, has to-Chadong expressway.
a tower-to-tower main span
of 1,176 m (3,858 ft) and What makes this
a total length of 1,534 m structure unusual is that
(5,033 ft). The suspension it is approached by two
bridge has a deck height of tunnels that are carved into
336 m (1,102 ft) above the the mountainous terrain, so
Dehang Canyon, making it the bridge is hidden until
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Arizona, USA, has a maximum vertical drop of 250 m
(820 ft). Located at Grand Canyon West on the Hualapai
Indian Reservation, the structure consists of a 20-m-wide
(65-ft) U-shaped and cantilevered glass-bottomed
observation deck jutting out past the rim of the Grand
Canyon. Conceived by Las Vegas businessman David
Jin and realized by Lochsa Engineering, the Skywalk
can resist an 8.0-magnitude earthquake and 160-km/h
(100-mph) winds. It can hold 120 people at any one time.

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DATELINE 1921 Longest home run hit
On 18 Jul, baseball legend George Herman “Babe” Ruth (USA) smashes a 175-m (574-ft) home run
for the New York Yankees against the Detroit Tigers at Navin Field in Detroit, Michigan, USA.

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Highest-grossing silent movie 1925 DATELINE
The Big Parade (USA) makes $22 m (£4.96 m). The record will stand until the release of The Artist (FRA, 2011), which

closely follows the traditions of silent-era movies and will gross in excess of $133 m (£91 m) by Jan 2016.

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ARTS & MEDIA

DATELINE 1927 First land-speed record run to exceed 200 mph
On 29 Mar, British racing driver Henry Segrave drives his Sunbeam 1000 HP – a twin-V12-engined
monster known as Mystery – to a speed of 203.79 mph (327.97 km/h) at Daytona Beach in Florida, USA.

170 Arts & Media

CONTENTS 172

ARTS & MEDIA 174
FACTOGRAPHIC 176
ART SALES 178
SHAKESPEARE 182
MUSIC 184
MOVIES 186
DISNEY 188
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Squadron Leader Douglas Douglas-Hamilton (UK) leads a flight of two open-cockpit biplanes over the
summit of Mount Everest. Fighting the thin air and high winds, they clear the peak by only 100 ft (30 m).

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Marry?”, above) by French Post-Impressionist painter
Paul Gauguin reputedly sold for around $300 m (£197 m)
in Feb 2015. It was a private sale from the collection of a
retired Sotheby’s executive to an unnamed buyer.

Seven months later, US tycoon Ken Griffin reportedly
paid $300 m for Willem de Kooning’s Interchange (1955).
He bought it alongside a $200-m (£129.8-m) piece by
Jackson Pollock (USA), Number 17A (1948).

DATELINE 1935 First land-speed record to exceed 300 mph
On 3 Sep, Sir Malcolm Campbell (UK) achieves a speed of 301.129 mph (484.62 km/h) at Bonneville
in Utah, USA, driving the Campbell-Railton Blue Bird. It is powered by a Rolls-Royce R V12 engine.

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FAST FACTS

For 46 days in 1961, New York’s Museum of Modern Art hung Henri Matisse’s work

Le Bateau upside down by mistake • Alan Bean has used real dust from the Moon in

his paintings • From 1912 to 1948, the Olympic Games included art competitions

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The 213.9-tonne (471,569-lb) German Hindenburg (LZ 129) has her maiden flight. Two years later, the Graf Zeppelin II

(LZ 130) takes to the air. Each is 245 m (803 ft 10 in) long with a gas capacity of 200,000 m³ (7,062,933 cu ft).

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FASTEST RECITAL OF HAMLET’S SOLILOQUY

Sean Shannon (CAN) recited Hamlet’s 260-word soliloquy “To be or not to be” in 23.8 sec
in Edinburgh, UK, on 30 Aug 1995 – a rate of 655 words per minute. The monologue, from
Act III, scene i of Hamlet, reflects on death. Hamlet speculates about whether it is better
to endure life’s hardships stoically or to end them by killing oneself – although he fears
that the“undiscover’d country” beyond death may hold supernatural terrors of its own.

DATELINE 1938 Fastest steam locomotive
The London and North Eastern Railway “Class A4” No. 4468 Mallard reaches a speed
of 125 mph (201 km/h) at Stoke Bank, near Essendine in Rutland, UK, on 3 Jul.

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FAST FACTS

No one knows Shakespeare’s date of birth, although traditionally it

is regarded as 23 Apr 1564 – St George’s Day • Shakespeare’s name is

spelled differently in each of the six surviving versions of his signature

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on the country’s Baltic coast. The V-2 climbs to an altitude of 50 mi (80.4 km) above Earth’s surface.

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In 2011, Adele became the first female to have the biggest-selling album
and single in the USA and UK in the same year. Released in 2015, her
third LP, 25, soon became the fastest-selling pop album in the USA,
shifting 2,433,000 units in four days from its release on 20 Nov. Only 24 hr
after its release, more than 900,000 copies of 25 had been downloaded on
Apple’s iTunes store, according to Billboard, making it the fastest-selling album on
iTunes. And on 30 Nov 2015, it reached the million-selling mark on the UK albums
chart, the fastest time for an album to sell 1 million copies in the UK.

DATELINE 1942 Largest battleship
The Japanese battleships Yamato and Musashi have a full-load displacement of 71,111 tonnes (78,386 US tons),
an overall length of 263 m (863 ft), a beam of 38.7 m (127 ft) and a full-load draught of 10.8 m (35 ft 5.1 in).

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FAST FACTS

Shakira speaks Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and English • In 2015, superstar

DJ Calvin Harris became the new “face” of Giorgio Armani underwear • At its

peak, Adele’s 25 was selling more than double the rest of Billboard’s top 100

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(59,525 lb), measures 2.6 x 0.9 x 24 m (8 ft 6 in x 2 ft 11 in x 78 ft 9 in) and is used to calculate artillery trajectories.

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DATELINE 1947 Largest aircraft
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of California, USA. This colossal flying boat has a wing-span of 319 ft 11 in (97.51 m) and is 218 ft 8 in (66.65 m) long.

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David Bowie’s left pupil became permanently dilated following a fight during

his schooldays • Rihanna is a mezzo-soprano, with a three-octave vocal range

• It took Mark Ronson 82 takes to nail his guitar part for “Uptown Funk!”

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public in case of a nuclear attack. It emits a 138-decibel wail that can be heard up to 25 mi (40 km) away.

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has returned more profit relative to what they were
paid than Captain America star Chris Evans (USA),
according to Forbes. In his last three major films of this
period – which include Avengers: Age of Ultron (USA,
2015) and Captain America: The Winter Soldier (USA,
2014) – Evans grossed $181.80 (£118) for every $1 (£0.65)
that he was paid.

DATELINE 1953 First ascent of Everest
Edmund Percival Hillary (NZ) and Indo-Tibetan Tenzing Norgay reach the 8,848-m-high
(29,029-ft) summit of the world’s highest mountain at 11:30 a.m. on 29 May.

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FAST FACTS

Daniel Craig has starred in the three longest Bond films: Casino Royale (2006),

Skyfall (2012) and Spectre (2015) • Robert Downey Jr’s Iron Man suit has around

450 parts • The Force Awakens is the first Star Wars movie not released in May

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ties between 2.9 million Live and Let Die (UK, 1973).
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one mile in 3 min 59.4 sec. Up to this point, many people had believed that this feat was impossible.

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Newfoundland, Canada, opens for business. It carries 588 UK–USA calls and 119 UK–Canada calls in the first 24 hr.

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Cosmodrome at Tyuratam in Kazakhstan, USSR. Its lifetime is believed to be 92 days.

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DATELINE 1960 Deepest manned descent
On 23 Jan, Dr Jacques Piccard (CHE) and Lt Donald Walsh (USA) pilot the Swiss-built US Navy bathyscaphe Trieste to a depth
of 10,911 m (35,797 ft) in the Challenger Deep section of the Mariana Trench, thought to be the deepest point on Earth.

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SpongeBob SquarePants was created by bona fide marine biologist Stephen

Hillenburg • The Bazinga rieki jellyfish was named after Sheldon’s catchphrase

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At 6:07 a.m. GMT on 12 Apr, Cosmonaut Flight Major Yuri Gagarin (USSR) takes off in Vostok 1 from Baikonur

Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. He lands 118 min later, after a flight of 40,868.6 km (25,394.6 mi).

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DATELINE 1962 First successful interplanetary mission
On 14 Dec, the US probe Mariner 2 performs a flyby of Venus, coming within 35,000 km (21,750 mi) of its surface. Its observations
reveal the extremely hot nature of the planet. As of 2016, Mariner 2 still orbits the Sun, although it no longer has any power.

188 Arts & Media

FAST FACTS

There are approximately 4 billion video views on YouTube each day

• The name of the video-sharing service Vine is short for “vignette”

• Every day, around 1.5 billion 6-sec loops are played on Vine

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Land-speed record: first to exceed 400 mph 1963 DATELINE
Driving the jet-engine-powered Spirit of America, Craig Breedlove (USA) reaches

a speed of 407.518 mph (655.836 km/h) in Bonneville, Utah, USA, on 5 Aug.

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SCIENCE &
TECHNOLOGY

DATELINE 1964 First civilian in space
Konstantin Feoktistov (RUS) makes his sole space flight, in Voskhod 1, on 12–13 Oct. As an engineer, he helps design
the Sputnik satellites as well as the Vostok, Voskhod and Soyuz capsules, but is not a member of the military.

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CONTENTS 192

SCIENCE & 194
TECHNOLOGY 196
FACTOGRAPHIC 198
3D PRINTING 200
CONSUMER TECH 202
ROBOTS 204
SMALL STUFF
LASERS
CUTTING-EDGE SCIENCE

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Driving the jet-powered Spirit of America Sonic I, Craig Breedlove (USA) achieves a new

land-speed record of 600.6 mph (966.5 km/h) in Bonneville, Utah, USA, on 15 Nov.

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FACTOGRAPHIC

SCI-FI VS SCIENCE

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3D PRINTING

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everything from car parts

to medical devices. What’s

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by Garth Minette (USA),

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encourages people to freely a robotic cockroach using 3D-printed components.
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DATELINE 1966 Longest survival without food
On 12 Jul, Angus Barbieri (UK) eats his first meal in 382 days, having lost around 293 lb (132.9 kg) by living on tea and
water. The formerly obese man had been taking part in an experiment looking at the health effects of starvation.

194 Science & Technology

FAST FACTS

Chuck Hull (USA) invented “stereolithography” (a technique of building up 3D

objects in thin layers) in 1983 • Three 3D-printed models of an Aston Martin

DB5 were made by Voxeljet (DEU) for the 2012 James Bond movie Skyfall

cryogenic hydrogen per
minute by spinning at a rate
of more than 90,000 rpm.
During the test, the
rocket generated almost
90 kilonewtons of thrust.

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Yoshitomo Imura (JPN)
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years on 21 Oct 2014 for
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recognized by the US Food to burn, and can supply
and Drug Administration almost 5,500 litres
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enthusiasts printed a two-wheeled wonder. At 2015’s RAPID show, in Long Beach,
California, USA, TE Connectivity (USA) unveiled the world’s first 3D-printed motorcycle.
Of the orange-and-blue bike’s 100 components, a total of 76 were 3D-printed, using 4.32 mi
(6.95 km) of ABS plastic filament as well as bronze and steel components. Multiple printers
worked together for 1,700 hr of total print time to create the parts. The electric motor,
tyres and mirrors could not be printed, however, as that technology doesn’t yet exist.

First heart transplant 1967 DATELINE
On 3 Dec, South African surgeon Christiaan Barnard completes the first successful heart transplant.
The patient dies of pneumonia soon after, but for 18 days his new heart functions without external aid.

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CONSUMER TECH

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tech giant Apple (USA),
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be worth an extraordinary
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BEST-SELLING BRANDS LCD TV
Samsung (KOR) 49,267,500 units
We are surrounded by consumer electronics and
gadgetry – from the ubiquitous smartphones we
carry with us to the printers and monitors at work
and laptops and TVs at home. Electronics is big
business. And the brands shown here did the biggest
business of all in 2014 – the latest year for which
full sales figures are available – as confirmed by
market-research company Euromonitor.

Tablet
iPad (USA) 65,167,900 units

Printer In-car navigation
HP (USA) 22,249,200 units Garmin (CHE) 9,135,500 units

Wearable electronics Smartphone
Fitbit (USA) 11,794,000 units Samsung (KOR) 269,008,600 units

DATELINE 1969 First men on the Moon
During the Apollo 11 mission, Neil Alden Armstrong becomes the first man to set foot on the Moon, at 2:56 a.m.
and 15 sec GMT on 21 Jul 1969. He is followed out of the lunar module Eagle by Buzz Aldrin (both USA).

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FAST FACTS

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acts like a tiny fluorescent tube • In 2015, Disney banned selfie sticks from its

theme parks • “Nomophobia” is the fear of being without your mobile phone

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LG (KOR) 65,800 units

Portable tablet (eReader) Portable player Laptop
Kindle (USA) 9,508,000 units iPod (USA) 26,740,900 units Lenovo (CHN) 20,698,100 units

Farthest distance from Earth reached by humans 1970 DATELINE
At 00:21 a.m. GMT on 15 Apr 1970, the crew of Apollo 13 were 254 km (158 mi) from the lunar
surface, on the far side of the Moon, putting them 400,171 km (248,655 mi) away from Earth.

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