26Ganymede
Jupiter's moon, Ganymede, is larger than Mercury and would be classed as a planet if it were orbiting the Sun rather than Jupiter.
27. Back in 2010, a man named Jon McLoone ran 15 million computer simulations of the game Hangman and found out that the most difficult word for that program to guess is "Jazz."
28. The farthest distance that a lost pet dog has found his way home occurred in 1979 when Jimpa, a labrador/boxer cross, turned up at his old home in Pimpinio, Victoria, Australia after walking 3,218 km (2,000 miles) across Australia.
29. In 1972, hours after American politician George Wallace was shot in an assassination attempt, Nixon rushed E. Howard Hunt to the shooter's apartment to plant campaign literature for Democrat George McGovern, hoping to sway McGovern supporters to Nixon. Hunt called it off after the FBI sealed off the apartment.
30. A topless, laid-back statue of Abraham Lincoln stands at a federal court in Los Angeles. Sculptor James Lee Hansen explained in 1941 that “from a sculpturing standpoint, it’s better to show the body without any clothes, [so] that’s why I left ’em off.”
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31Augusta Bunge
The record for most generations alive in a single-family was set in 1989 and the number was seven. Augusta Bunge aged 109 years was followed by her daughter aged 89, her grand-daughter, 70, her great-grand-daughter, 52, her great-great-grand-daughter, 33, her great-great-great-granddaughter, 15 and her great-great-great-great-grandson born in 1989.
32. The atmosphere in Titan, Saturn's Moon, is so thick and the gravity so low, that humans could fly through it by flapping "wings" attached to their arms.
33. Ants make up 15 to 20% of the terrestrial animal biomass. In rain forests, as much as 25% of it is ants.
