26Armand Hammer's Baking Soda Connection
Armand Hammer, a businessman, was one of the owners of the Arm & Hammer baking soda brand. It's fascinating to note that the brand existed 30 years prior to Hammer's birth.
27. Dean Karnazes holds the record for the longest non-stop run, having run 350 miles (560 km) in 80 hours and 44 minutes in 2005. Karnazes has a physiological advantage in that he doesn't seem to have a lactate threshold, allowing him to run such distances without sleep.
28. In 2012, a British man named Wesley Carrington bought a metal detector and, within 20 minutes, found gold from the Roman Age worth £100,000 in the local woods.
29. On Easter Sunday of 2024, someone accessed the GardaWorld cash storage facility in Sylmar and stole $30 million in what is considered the largest heist in Los Angeles history. The culprit managed to breach the facility and disappear with the loot without anyone noticing until the next day.
30. Robert Louis Stevenson wrote The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886) during a six-day cocaine binge. His wife, Fanny, remarked: "That an invalid in my husband's condition of health was able to do the manual labor alone of putting 60,000 words on paper in six days seems almost incredible."
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31FBI’s Lost D.B. Cooper Evidence
In 1998, the FBI attempted to extract DNA from cigarette butts smoked in 1971 by the unidentified airline hijacker known as D.B. Cooper. They discovered, however, that the Las Vegas field office had destroyed the butts while in their custody.
32. After actor Sean Astin turned 18, he left numerous personal items at his mother's house. When he returned for them, he found many items, including the treasure map from "The Goonies," missing. "It's an item that would probably be worth $100,000 now," he said. "And I think my mom threw it out."
33. During the 1590 siege of Paris, severe food shortages drove desperate Parisians to grind human bones into bread. As the city faced starvation, people resorted to collecting bones from cemeteries, including the Holy Innocents Cemetery, and processing them into flour to make bread.
34. Eadwig, who was the King of England from 955-959 A.D., reportedly abandoned his coronation feast at the age of 15 to engage in a threesome with his future wife and her mother. The archbishop had to intervene, dragging him back to the coronation.
35. In 2012, Korean yoga master Choi Gap-bok escaped from prison by squeezing through the food slot at the bottom of his cell door. Measuring just 5.9 inches tall and 17.7 inches wide, the slot allowed Choi to slip out after applying skin oil to his body while the three guards slept.
