26Women's Self-Defense Hat Pins
During the early 1900s, women in the USA and Britain used to wear foot-long pins in their hats, which could be used in self-defense to stab men who groped or assaulted them.
27. Chicken wings used to be discarded as waste, but a creative restaurant owner who was out of food, barbecued and served them in 1964, creating buffalo wings. He named it after the city, not the animal.
28. Colored toilet paper used to be popular in the U.S. until the 1980s. It was colored to better match different bathroom decors, and it is still widely used in France today.
29. The ampersand used to be the 27th letter of the alphabet.
30. The car trunk literally used to be a trunk strapped to the back of the car.
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31Tug-of-War Olympic Past
Tug-of-war used to be an Olympic sport. In the 1912 Olympics in Sweden, the host nation took gold, Great Britain took silver, and no one won bronze because only two teams showed up.
32. Antarctica used to be called Australia until modern-day Australia appropriated its name in 1824, leaving the continent nameless until its current name was adopted in the 1890s.
33. Previews used to be shown at the end of a movie, which is why they are referred to as "trailers."
34. It used to be illegal in the United States for actors to wear military uniforms in a production portraying the military negatively, until the Supreme Court ruled in 1970 that this was a violation of the First Amendment.
35. Chickens used to be fitted with tiny glasses, especially rose-colored ones, to prevent eye-pecking and cannibalism, as they were thought to prevent chickens from seeing blood and becoming enraged.
