26Notre Dame Firefighters
Firefighters that responded to 2019’s fire at Notre Dame knew which works of art to rescue and in which order following a protocol developed exactly for such kind of a disaster.
27. The only private building on the National Mall in the United States is owned by the American Pharmacists Association.
28. Math Duels were common in Italy in the 1500s. Mathematicians challenged each other to prove their mental superiority as well as to win fame and riches along with better salaries and more students. Those who lost would lose their job for the rest of their life as a teacher.
29. A woman named Irena Sendler worked as a plumber in the Warsaw Ghetto during World War 2, and saved over 2,500 Jewish children, smuggling many of them out in her toolbox. She was also nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize and lost to Al Gore.
30. In 2017, statistician Nathan Yau charted divorce rates among various careers. Bartenders, flight attendants, massage therapists, and nurses had the highest divorce rates at around 45-50%. Meanwhile, actuaries had the lowest at 17%, followed by software developers, engineers, scientists, and eye doctors.
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31Rat Lawyer
In 16th century France, a lawyer successfully defended a group of rats in a court of law, which accused them of eating the barley crop of local farmers. The court put up posters in nearby towns summoning the rats to court and asked the townspeople to move their cats indoors for their safety.
32. Denmark was the first nation to pay worker compensation to women, nurses, and air hostesses, who had developed breast cancer after years of night-shift work in government-sponsored jobs.
33. Referring to a bathroom or water closet as a Crapper stems from Thomas Crapper. Thomas was an English businessman and plumber who made significant improvements to toilet design. He held 3 toilet patents and we still use most of them today.
34. The term “nutritionist” is not legally protected nor regulated, so anyone can advertise themselves as a nutritionist regardless of education or credentials. But “dietitian” or specifically “registered dietitian” legally requires education via credited curriculum and passing a registration exam.
35. During the Chernobyl meltdown, electrician Aleksandr Lelechenko saved his younger colleagues from radiation exposure by walking through radioactive water three times to effect emergency repairs alone. He died in Kiev hospital less than 2 weeks after the disaster.
