Joey Chestnut

01Parkhurst voted in the 1868 U.S. presidential election in Santa Cruz County, the first known trans man to do so in America.
02Described by contemporaries as among the finest stagecoach drivers on the California-Oregon run, handling six-horse teams in mountain snow.
03At death in 1879, a coroner's examination revealed Parkhurst's birth sex — news that reached newspapers across the country within days.

A typical crossbow

Illustrative woodcut from the Latin edition of Columbus's letter printed in Basel in 1494.

Joey Chestnut ate 76 hot dogs in 10 minutes at Nathan's Famous while a protestor physically tackled him mid-contest. He kept eating. He won. The hot dogs were still in his hand.