26King Charles VI
King Charles VI of France suffered from glass delusions, a psychiatric phenomenon in which people believe they're made of glass. Charles VI refused to let people touch him and wore reinforced clothing to protect himself from accidental "shattering."
27. In 1990, Czech and Slovak politicians "fought" the Hyphen War, a political battle over whether "Czechoslovakia" should be spelled with a hyphen.
28. The Manhattanhenge is an event during which the setting sun or the rising sun is aligned with the east-west streets of the main street grid of Manhattan, New York City. The term was coined by Neil deGrasse Tyson.
29. Vladimir Petrovich Demikhov was a Soviet scientist and pioneer. Originally he planned an experimental heart transplant which went wrong. Not wanting to "waste the sterilized operating table", the surgeon proceeded with the head transplant resulting in a (living) two-headed dog.
30. Around less than 1% of the human population, which is overwhelmingly female; suffer from Persistent genital arousal disorder (PGAD), in which the afflicted person experiences spontaneous genital arousal, unresolved by orgasms and triggered by sexual or nonsexual stimuli, eliciting stress.
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31Kottabos
Kottabos was the world's first drinking game, where you tried to fling wine from your cup onto a small disc that rested on a lampstand, the goal being to try to tip-off.
32. When you open your eyes in a perfectly dark room you don't see black, but "Eigengrau", a shade of gray that arises from visual noise.
33. In 1906, a Congolese man called Ota Benga from a Mbuti pygmy tribe was held in a human zoo exhibit in the Bronx, as a display of the "earlier stage" of human evolution. In 1916, after getting out and unable to return to his homeland, he shot himself in the heart with a stolen pistol and died at the age of 32.
34. Composer Arnold Schoenberg had Triskaidekaphobia. He feared the number 13 so much that he called it 12A instead of 13, and when he was 76 (7+6=13) he stayed in bed all day on Friday the 13th, to avoid any danger. He died that night.
35. A man named Alexis St. Martin suffered a gunshot wound which did not fully heal. He then allowed a doctor to carry out experiments on indigestion, by transferring food in and out of his stomach via the bullet hole in his chest.
