26BLU-82 Bombs
During the Gulf War, U.S. troops dropped a 6,800 kg BLU-82 bomb as an act of psychological warfare against Iraqi troops. A British SAS unit that witnessed the explosion assumed that U.S.A. had used a nuclear weapon and radioed back to their headquarters, “Sir, the blokes have just nuked Kuwait!”
27. 63 years after its launch on March 17, 1958, Vanguard 1 is the oldest satellite still orbiting Earth. Weighing only 3.2 pounds and with a diameter of 6.5 inches, Soviet Premier, Nikita Khrushchev, derided it as "the grapefruit satellite."
28. Amazon Web Services offers a service called Snowmobile, where they will bring you a truck with 100 Petabytes worth of hard drives, copy your data, then drive it to its destination, bypassing the internet entirely. Transferring this much data over a 1Gbps line would take 20 years.
29. Before the British left New York City after the Revolution, they nailed the Union Jack to a greased flagpole as a final act of defiance. One American managed to scale the pole with nails and cleats and replace the flag with the Stars and Stripes. Reenacting this feat then became a holiday celebration.
30. Until 1956 after the end of British rule, Egypt hadn’t been both fully independent and ruled by native Egyptians for 2500 years.
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31University of Virginia
Cheating on exams or any other assignment at the University of Virginia is punished by expulsion. There is no lesser punishment.
32. In 1933, in a publicity stunt for a Mae West movie named "It ain't no Sin", a Hollywood Press Agent bought 50 parrots and had taught them to squawk "It ain't no sin!" Then the movie changed titles and the parrots were subsequently released in South America, still repeating "it ain't no sin."
33. 61% of U.S troops killed in Vietnam were younger than 21 years old, most of whom were drafted.
34. Guy Fawkes was hung, gutted, and tortured for his plans. He was caught red-handed after an anonymous tip-off leading to his torture, which revealed co-conspirators. This was followed up by his execution and his body parts being paraded around London.
35. Naked Mole Rats speak in dialects unique to their colonies and will kill intruders with the wrong dialect.
