26Chicago Public School Swimming Rules
For more than 50 years, Chicago Public Schools required that male students be nude while attending swimming classes. Female students were allowed to wear swimsuits.
27. The Maze in Utah ranks as the one of riskiest hikes in the world. It is the least accessible district of Canyonlands. It's a difficult place to navigate, with lots of side canyons and dead ends from the main trail. Food and water are scarce and it could take rescuers three days to reach.
28. The samurai were trained not only to kill someone, but to do so aesthetically. They considered killing to be an art form of the highest aesthetic needed for self-perfection.
29. The chemical compound (Isopropyl Acetate) produced by bees to make the beehive attack someone, is the same chemical which is used to make banana-flavored sweets. This means that bees can become hostile around those sweets.
30. Electric blankets can cause heat strokes in sleep, which may result in rectal temperature up to 41.2 °C (106.2 °F), severe burns, and death.
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31Belcher Islands Massacre
In 1941, after a meteor shower, two members of a Canadian Inuit camp on the Belcher Islands in Hudson Bay announced that they were Jesus and God. They gained followers, whom they convinced to kill their sled dogs (telling them people will soon be able to fly) and unbelievers. Around 9 people ended up losing their lives as a result of the community spread insanity.
32. Heinrich Schliemann was an amateur archeologist who located the ancient city of Troy in the 1870s among other feats. Modern archeologists disapprove of his methods of using dynamite to blow up the site and look through the debris.
33. Back in 1910, Citibank took over the National Bank of Haiti, which besides being the sole commercial bank also served as the Haitian treasury. Then in 1915 after both withholding Haitian funds and paying rebels to destabilize the country, the bank pressured the US Government to occupy Haiti.
34. In the 1700s, oysters were so overly abundant and popular in the New York City that their discarded shells were repurposed into mortar paste to aid New York’s building boom. Trinity Church is an example of a building built with oyster shells.
35. The iconic Australian slouch hat is bent up on one side to allow the armed forces to maneuver rifles on and off their shoulders without hitting the brim.
