When you were learning to read, Russian-born Samuel Reshevsky was learning how to play chess. And while you pulled out your hair at long division problems, Reshevsky made 40 year-old men do so in national chess tournaments. Considered a child prodigy, during his life Samuel Reshevsky boasted the incredible title of eight-time winner of the US Chess Championships as well as that of accountant and father of three.

Discovered by Europeans in 1803, the remote island on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef was named after the wife of an esteemed colonial governor. It remains to be seen whether Lady Musgrave would have enjoyed what the island came to be known for in the late 19th century, though: miners flocked to the tiny island to extract its ample guano deposits.

Judging by its rather homogenous audience, this 1957 match between the Montreal Canadiens and the New York Rangers in Madison Square Gardens just goes to show how specifically hockey caters itself to a certain demographic.