How much do you know about Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space? This detailed profile sheds light on the cosmonaut's life and accomplishments, as well as her struggles.

In 1948, Idaho Fish and Game parachuted beavers into the state's backcountry — a novel way to transplant "problem" animals that were clashing with homeowners. Specially designed wooden boxes were used, with the help of a beaver "test pilot" named, naturally, Geronimo.

The Londonist regales us with this stranger-than-fiction tale about Hugh Mansfield Robinson, a former town clerk who claimed to be an interplanetary psychic. In 1926, when Mars was 8 million miles closer to Earth than average, Robinson paid to have a love letter transmitted via radio to a Martian woman named Oomaruru.