Template:Are You Sure/May 19

• ... that the Soviet Union's Mars 2 unmanned space probe reached Mars and entered its atmosphere on November 27, 1971, but the module crashed on the surface of Mars and all contact was lost after its parachute failed to deploy?

• ... that Napoleon Bonaparte actually played chess against the Mechanical Turk, a chess-playing machine, as depicted in the historical drama film Napoleon: Rise of the Machines?