26Dogs
Dogs can tell time by smell. They can smell different times of the day, and how long you have been gone by how much your (owner's) smell has dissipated since you have left.
27. There are microorganisms living on the seafloor that reproduce only once every 10,000 years and have been alive for millions. These are likely the oldest living things on Earth.
28. British Commander Terence Otway, wanted to be sure his men wouldn’t leak the D-Day plans. He tested them by sending 30 pretty members of the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force in civilian clothes to the local pubs with instructions to do all they could to try and get the information, but none of the men fell for it.
29. Purse makers didn't want Snooki From "Jersey Shore" carrying their purses, so they sent her new purses, from their competitors, for free.
30. In 2009, a retired policeman named Geraint Woolford was admitted to Abergele Hospital in North Wales and ended up next to another retired policeman who was also named Geraint Woolford. The men weren’t related, had never met and were the only two people in the UK named Geraint Woolford.
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31Women
In the late Classical Era of Greece, women-owned 35% of the land and property in Sparta. When a woman's husband died (usually in battle), his land and property passed to the wife, not to the oldest male.
32. As production of Toy Story wrapped up in 1994, Pixar writer Andrew Stanton asked his coworkers during a brainstorming session, “What if mankind had to leave Earth and somebody forgot to turn off the last robot?” 14 years later he answered his own question with the movie WALL-E in 2008.
33. Human procrastination is considered a complex psychological behavior because of the wide variety of reasons people do it. Although often attributed to "laziness", research shows it is more likely to be caused by anxiety, depression, a fear of failure, or reliance on abstract goals.
34. In 1959, a white man named John Howard Griffin from Texas disguised himself as a black man and traveled for 6 weeks on Greyhound buses. After publishing his experiences with racism he was forced to move to Mexico for several years due to death threats.
35. There is a new kind of disorder called “orthosomnia,” wherein someone is so obsessed with getting a good sleep that they actually lose sleep over it.
