1Lawyers in UK
In England and Wales, the role of a lawyer is divided into two. Solicitors provide legal advice, barristers argue in court, and clerks are middlemen between the two.
2. French veterinarian and microbiologist Gaston Ramon was nominated for the Nobel Prize 155 times between 1930 and 1953 but never won any, making him the most nominated individual to miss out on the award.
3. 10s of farmers die each year from grain entrapment, which is when a person is partially or fully submerged in grain, and cannot get out without assistance. In 2019, 67 incidents of grain entrapment took place, of which 39 were fatal.
4. When a firefighter gets injured and hasn’t moved for a set amount of time, a PASS device will emit an audible alarm of at least 95db. The purpose of this is to notify other firefighters in the vicinity to rescue the injured firefighter.
5. Teachers in Luxembourg are the best paid in the world, with a starting salary of 73,300€ ($79,920) going up to 128,200€ ($138,920) per year.
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6Mushroom Trained Pharmacists
Pharmacists in France have been trained in mycology, so foragers take the mushrooms they have gathered to their pharmacist where, free of charge, the mushrooms are checked for toxicity.
7. After South Park aired the episode Chef Aid, the term 'Chewbacca Defense' entered the legal lexicon. The legal strategy aims to deliberately confuse juries than refute cases. The practice was widely used by lawyers before the episode, but South Park gave it a term.
8. The Japanese have a word for workers who have been “overworked to death,” which is 'karoshi.' The most common causes of karoshi deaths are heart attacks or strokes due to stress and a starvation diet. Mental stress can also cause karoshi through workers taking their own lives.
9. Roughly 100 firefighter arsonists are convicted every year in North America and all of them are serial arsonists.
10. June 2nd is observed as International Whores' Day or International Sex Workers’ Day. The event commemorates the occupation of Église Saint-Nizier in Lyon by more than a hundred sex workers on June 2, 1975, to draw attention to their inhumane working conditions.
11Mike Hoare
Mercenary “Mad” Mike Hoare was also a chartered accountant. Even after leading two coups in Africa, the association said it could not expel him despite protests from members as he had committed no offense. He was finally expelled after going to prison for his third coup, upsetting him deeply.
12. There was a spate of waiters poisoning poor tippers in Chicago in 1918.
13. In the mid-19th century, a fight between clowns and firemen blew up into a full-scale riot and led to the entire Toronto police force losing their jobs.
14. Colin Murdoch was a New Zealand pharmacist who made a number of significant inventions, in particular the tranquilizer gun, the disposable hypodermic syringe, and the child-proof medicine containers.
15. Executives at McGraw Hill were curious to find out why their accountant was on television racing a McLaren F1 GTR, chartering Concorde trips and showing up to work in a Ferrari. Turns out he had been embezzling £2.8 million from them the past 5 years since he was recruited.
16Chernobyl Firefighter
The first firemen to respond to the Chernobyl meltdown stood above the burning core, which emitted radiation at 30,000 roentgen per hour. When they died a few weeks later, their bodies were so radioactive they were buried in coffins made of lead with the lids welded shut.
17. In 2012, an Indian nurse looking after the Duchess of Cambridge was prank-called by an Australian radio station pretending to be the Queen. This led to her revealing confidential information which was then broadcast on the radio. 3 days later, she committed suicide by hanging.
18. Draco was an Athenian lawyer who gave the city its first written code. The word Draconian originated from his name as his laws were so brutal. According to legend, he died due to his popularity. After giving a speech at a theatre, he was smothered when the audience threw their cloaks at him.
19. Barthélemy Thimonnier was a French tailor who invented the first (practical) sewing machine and opened the first machine-based clothing manufacturing company in the world. His factory was burned down by a mob of tailors who feared that his invention would ruin their business.
20. The St. Patrick’s Day tradition of dyeing the Chicago River green arose by accident when a group of plumbers used green dye to trace illegal substances that were polluting the river. The dyeing of the river is still sponsored by the local plumbers union.
21Teacher's Stress
Bad classroom acoustics and high loudness levels in the classroom can have a negative effect on a teacher’s stress levels.
22. A veterinarian is often the first to see signs of domestic and child abuse.
23. Oliva Sabuco de Nantes Barrera (1562-1646) was a philosopher/psychologist who wrote at age 25 about human and animal psychology, especially on the effects emotions have on our health. Her hypotheses fall much in line with modern observations and likely contributed to today’s applied psychology.
24. In the movie Legally Blonde, Elle Woods commits a huge ethical violation in and, in real life, she would’ve been barred from practicing law and may be subject to fines or prison time after she posed as a lawyer in attempts to get Paulette Bonafonté custody over her dog despite only being a first-year law student.
25. There was an elevator driver strike in New York City in 1945. Up until then, people were afraid to use automatic elevators but the strike drove their mass adoption. The elevator driver job demand started to decline which ultimately meant their job is lost forever.
