26Women Are Wonderful
The "Women Are Wonderful" effect is a phenomenon where people associate more positive attributes to women than to men, in general. While this attribution was true of both genders, woman's in-group bias was 4 times greater than men's.
27. Praise-God Barebone (1598-1679) was a radical English Puritan preacher and member of Oliver Cromwell's parliament. He gave his son Nicholas Barebone (or Barbon) the legendary middle name "If-Jesus-Christ-Had-Not-Died-For-Thee-Thou-Hadst-Been-Damned."
28. One of Saturn's moons, Mimas, closely resembles The Death Star from "Star Wars", however the film was released 3 years prior to the discovery of it's distinguishing crater feature.
29. There is a term for the tendency of technical equipment to fail when certain people are present. It's called the Pauli effect, named after Wolfgang Ernst Pauli.
30. Natalya "Natasha" Nikolayevna Demkina is a Russian woman who claims to possess a special vision that allows her to look inside human bodies and see organs and tissues, and thereby make medical diagnoses. Since the age of 10, she has performed readings in Russia.
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31Homicidal sleepwalking
In one of the only confirmed cases of homicidal sleepwalking, a man drove himself to his in-laws, bludgeoned the woman and strangled the man and drove off while asleep. He turned himself over to police, and was eventually acquitted of murder.
32. Five mice (Fe, Fi, Fo, Fum, and Phooey) circled the moon 75 times on Apollo 17. Among the last eight Earthlings to travel to the Moon, upon returning to Earth the four remaining living mice were soon murdered and dissected in the name of science.
33. The following sentence, with proper punctuation, is a legitimate sentence in the English Language: James while John had had had had had had had had had had had a better effect on the teacher.
34. "Cow tipping" is nothing but an urban myth. Cows do not sleep standing up, as they are unable to keep their knees locked like some other animals that do sleep standing up.
35. Adactylidium is a type of mite known for its unusual life cycle. The pregnant female grows 5-8 females and 1 male in her body. The male then impregnates the females while still in the mother. The females then eat their way out of their mother, and the male dies shortly after.
