26House Hunters
The HGTV show 'House Hunters', is staged and some houses featured on the show aren’t even for sale.
27. Corona never paid to be in 'Fast and the Furious' but received an estimated $15 million in free advertising.
28. There is a fruit called "Miracle Berry" that, when eaten, causes your taste buds to not detect sour flavor for about half an hour, causing sour foods to taste sweet.
29. One of the most brutal prisons in the US was Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, Louisiana, which was run like a plantation. In the 1930s, hardened prisoners broke down upon learning of their sentence there. At one point, 10% of Angola prisoners were stabbed.
30. Before hiring Sun Tzu, the King of Wu commanded him to train his harem of 180 concubines into soldiers. Sun Tzu divided them into two companies, appointed two company commanders and gave an order to which they responded by giggling. He then ordered the execution of the king's two favored concubines, to the king's protests, in that he had to carry out his mission of training them. Both the captains were killed and the squads then performed perfectly.
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31Dora the Explorer
In non-English speaking countries, Dora the Explorer teaches the viewers English words and numbers.
32. Lawyer and political commentator Barbara Olson was flying to California on September 11th, 2001 to be a panelist on Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher. She was on AA Flight 77 which was hijacked and flown into the Pentagon. Maher left a panel chair empty for a week in her memory.
33. The Albuquerque Isotopes (a minor league affiliate of the Colorado Rockies) named themselves after an episode of 'The Simpsons' in which Homer finds out that the Springfield Isotopes were moving to Albuquerque.
34. Actor Andy Whitfield filmed the entirety of his lead role in “Spartacus” while battling Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. His struggle was documented in an Oscar-nominated documentary called “Be Here Now,” which served to raise awareness for people suffering from leukemia and lymphoma.
35. In 1912, a child named Bobby Dunbar disappeared at the age of 4. He was found in another state with different parents. Investigators took the child and returned him to the Dunbars. Years later, DNA testing has revealed that it was the wrong kid.
