26Millionaire
If you started with $0.01 and doubled your money every day, it would take 27 days to become a millionaire.
27. The Gaia Hypothesis states that Earth should be categorized as a single pre-life organism operating on chemical reactions, much like an Amoeba.
28. When Georgia's Savanah airport attempted to expand a runway in the 1980's they were not given permission from a family to relocate two graves that lay on the property. The airport paved over the graves and laid two headstones flat with the runway.
29. An American POW (Jeremiah A Denton) in Vietnam blinked the Morse code for TORTURE during a propaganda interview.
30. A single asteroid, named Hebe, is the origin of about 40% of the meteorites that hit Earth.
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31Tron 1982 film
The original TRON (1982) was not considered for a visual effects Oscar because the Academy felt the filmmakers had cheated by using computers.
32. There is a disorder called "William's Syndromes" in which one of its primary features is "pathological friendliness."
33. The head of MI6's Anti-Communist Section (IX) in 1944, was actually a Communist passing information on to Moscow.
34. Michael Keaton wasn't surprised that he was cast as Batman as he initially believed the movie would be like the 1960s tv version with Adam West and only later learned that Batman was a much darker character.
35. In 2014, a Korean Air flight had to return to the gate because the Vice Chairman was served nuts in a plastic bag as opposed to serving on a plate. She struck the cabin crew chief with a tablet on his knuckles repeatedly and then fired him immediately in what's known as The Nut Rage Incident.
