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On 6 February 1971, Alan Shepard attached a modified six-iron head to a lunar sample-tool handle and hit two golf balls one-handed because his pressurised suit was too stiff for a normal swing. He joked that the second went “miles and miles and miles”; enhanced Apollo photographs analysed in 2021 placed the balls only about 24 and 40 yards away.
Florida began building what was intended to become the world's largest airport on 39 square miles of swamp beside the Everglades, five times the size of JFK and linked to both coasts by highway and high-speed transit — only one runway was finished, and the surrounding land became Big Cypress National Preserve
New York's Port Authority considered turning 10,000 acres of New Jersey wetlands into a major jet airport in 1959, but local residents raised $1 million to buy the land instead — the Great Swamp is now a wildlife refuge supporting more than 240 bird species just 26 miles from Times Square
A man clearing his garden for a new terrace found Denmark's largest Viking Age silver hoard after about half an hour of digging — nearly 18.5 kilograms of silver included bars, bracelets, coins and a tiny Thor's hammer
