At lift off, US space shuttles weight about 4.5 million pounds.

Bill Bowerman, the co-founder of the shoe company Nike, got his first shoe idea after staring at a waffle iron. This gave him the idea of using squared spikes to make the shoes lighter.

According to psychologists, the shoe and the foot are the most common sources of sexual fetishism in Western society.

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