1Crevice and Crevasse
A crevice and a crevasse are not the same thing. A crevice is a deep crack in the rock and a crevasse is a deep crack in the ice.
2. Over 800 people tried to accurately guess the weight of an ox at a fair in 1906. Although not a single person guessed the correct weight, the mean (average) of all the guesses was within 0.8% of the ox's actual weight.
3. The letter 'E' was used to designate a failing grade until it was phased out by the 1930s over the fear of students interpreting it to mean 'excellent'.
4. In 2008, after becoming fed up with people uploading their videos to YouTube, Monty Python started their own channel, uploading HQ versions of their most popular sketches. This move resulted in a 23,000% increase in their DVD sales.
5. The outspoken feminist and author Camille Paglia has actually been a strong critic against modern feminism, stating that "feminism has become a catch-all vegetable drawer where bunches of clingy sob sisters can store their moldy neuroses."
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6Matthew McConaughey
Matthew McConaughey has a food fetish and sometimes has to stop eating because he gets too sexually aroused by the food.
7. Scientist Nikola Tesla drank whiskey every day because he thought it would make him live to 150.
8. In 2009, The Sun attacked Gordon Brown for misspelling the name of a soldier (Jamie Jones instead of Jamie Janes) killed in Afghanistan, but in doing so misspelled the name themselves.
9. Originally Mr. T's gold chains came from customers at the nightclub where he worked. People had either lost them or left them behind after a fight.
10. In Italy, six scientists were charged with manslaughter because they didn't predict a 2009 earthquake which killed 309 people.
11Hulk Hogan
Years ago Hulk Hogan missed a call from his agent to sponsor a new indoor grill who then gave it to George Foreman, who was also his client. George Foreman earned nearly $500 million off marketing the grill.
12. Steve Jobs once argued that’s it completely unnatural to touch the screen on a PC. He reportedly said people's arms would fatigue and called the idea “ergonomically horrible.”
13. Actor John Cusack has trained in kickboxing for over 20 years and is a sixth-degree black belt.
14. Buzz Aldrin's mother's maiden name was Marion Moon.
15. When meeting with Pele, Ronald Reagan said: "My name is Ronald Reagan, I'm the President of the United States of America, but you don't need to introduce yourself, because everyone knows who Pele is."
16Richard Berry
In 1959, Richard Berry who wrote "Louie, Louie" sold the song's rights for $750 to pay for his wedding. In the mid-80s, he was living on welfare with his mom in South Central LA, when a lawyer convinced him to take action to get the rights back. He settled out of court and became a millionaire.
17. The reason all videos are subtitled on Netflix is because the National Association for the Deaf filed a class-action lawsuit against them in 2010.
18. In 1955, a 6-year-old boy named Brian Kilbreath incredibly fought off a starving cougar while his friend ran for help taking 45 minutes before finally finding an adult who believed him.
19. In Armenia, all children aged 6 and up are taught chess at school, as it is a mandatory part of their curriculum.
20. Layne Staley (former lead singer of Alice in Chains) was found over a week after he died not because his friends or family notified someone, but because his accountant noticed he hadn't withdrawn money from his account in a week.
21Yelu Chucai
Genghis Khan's chief adviser was a captured scholar named Yelu Chucai. His contribution to the Mongol Empire was to suggest that the Mongols not kill everyone, but tax them instead.
22. When ketchup is labeled "Fancy" it's actually a United States Department of Agriculture grade meaning it's thicker than standard ketchup.
23. There is a screenplay named 'Atuk' which has never been made into a movie because anyone who has shown interest in playing the lead role has died unexpectedly, including John Candy, Chris Farley, John Belushi, and Sam Kinison.
24. The White House used to be partially powered by solar panels starting in 1979 before they were taken down by the Reagan Administration in 1986.
25. The first same-sex marriage license in the US was issued 43 years ago (1975), in Boulder, Colorado by county clerk Clela Rorex, who later refused a marriage license to a man and his horse because the underage horse did not have parental consent.
