Sputnik I was the first artificial satellite to orbit the earth on:

Australia is called the land of Golden Fleece because it is the largest producer of wool in the world. The nickname “Land of the Golden Fleece” can also refer to the country of Georgia. Georgia, a nation in Europe, the country gets this nickname from the ancient Greek mythology of the Golden Fleece. Fleece means the woolly cover of sheep or goat.

On 13 September 2012 the World Meteorological Organization disqualified the record for the highest recorded temperature, exactly 90 years after it had been established at El Azizia, Libya, with a measurement of 58°Celsius. The official highest recorded temperature is now 56.7°C (134°F), which was measured on 10 July 1913 at Greenland Ranch, Death Valley, California, USA. As a result of an investigation in 2012, the WMO concluded that the El Azizia record measurement could be inaccurate by as much as 7°C due to a combination of factors including the asphalt-like surface over which the measurement was taken, which is not a fair representation of the native desert soil.