OH SHEEEYIIIIIIII - POW

From Futility Closet:

Four light aircraft have been flown under the St. Louis arch.

In 1980, Kenneth Swyers tried to parachute onto the span, hoping to jump back off and land on the ground. He slid all the way down one leg and died.

"Against stupidity," wrote Schiller, "the gods themselves contend in vain."

Indeed.

Bonus 1:
A flight attendant once asked Muhammad Ali to fasten his seat belt.

Ali said, "Superman don't need no seat belt."

The attendant replied, "Superman don't need no airplane, either."

Bonus 2:


The school cheer of MIT is:

"Cosine, secant, tangent, sine! - 3 point 1 4 1 5 9!"