26Lottery
Americans spend more on lottery tickets than on movies, video games, music, sports tickets, and books combined.
27. American singer Tom Petty wrote the song "I Won't Back Down" after an arsonist burned down his house and he escaped with just the clothes on his back.
28. Fish and chips are historically so important to the UK that in World War 1, the British government made safeguarding supplies of them a priority and during World War 2, Churchill refused to ration the dish.
29. McDonald's intentionally created exactly four different shapes for chicken nuggets. According to the company, “three would’ve been too few. Five would’ve been, like, wacky.”
30. Ancient Greek and Roman statues were actually brilliantly colored and not just bare marble/stone.
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31Thurl Ravenscroft
Thurl Ravenscroft who sang "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch" was also the voice of Tony the Tiger.
32. A squirrel monkey named Miss Baker was one of the first animals to be launched into space by the United States and recovered alive. She lived to the age of 27, becoming the longest living squirrel monkey, and her tombstone often has a banana or two on top of it.
33. Once, to treat an earache, a nurse administered ear drops to a patient's rectum, because the doctor had abbreviated "right ear" to "R ear". Neither patient nor nurse questioned why the ear drops should go there.
34. One of the selling points for introducing the guillotine during the French Revolution was equality. Commoners could now enjoy the comparatively quick and painless death of decapitation just like the nobility, and would no longer have to endure brutal deaths such as those caused by hanging.
35. Honey bees initially have up to 21 virgin queen bees, who fight to the death until there is only one.
