26Hans Zimmer
Hans Zimmer isolated himself for 30 days in his apartment to help him compose the soundtrack for the Interstellar movie.
27. The song "Edelweiss" in "The Sound of Music" was written for the musical, but sounded so much like a classic folk song that after the first performances, native Austrians said they were delighted to "hear that old folk tune again."
28. When a pit bull mix named Dosha was hit by a car, she was shot in the head by a police officer to stop the dog’s suffering. At the animal control center, her body was put in a freezer, but a couple of hours later, she was found alive. She was taken into surgery and survived the ordeal.
29. Dr. Dolittle, the star of a series of lighthearted children's books about a guy who could talk to animals, was dreamt up by British author Hugh Lofting while in the gruesome carnage of the trenches of World War 1, as a distraction, in letters to his children.
30. A tiger's roar is so loud that is can be heard from over 2 miles away and can reach up to 114 decibels, which is about as loud as a jet airplane taking off.
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31Martha Gellhorn
Among the thousands of men on the Normandy beaches on D-Day, there was one single woman named Martha Gellhorn. She was a rogue war correspondent who stowed away in the toilet of a hospital ship. She was also the third wife of Ernest Hemingway.
32. In the 60s and 70s, nuclear-powered cardiac pacemakers were used, containing a tiny amount of plutonium encased in epoxy and titanium to resist the person from gunshots or cremation. In 2003, over 50 living people still had them. If a coroner finds one, they are supposed to return it to Los Alamos for disposal.
33. In 1977, David Begelman, then head of Columbia Pictures, was caught embezzling $75,000 from the studio. To avoid a scandal he was quietly fired, and three years later became CEO of MGM. The actor who discovered his embezzlement was blacklisted by the studio for reporting it to the police.
34. A man named Angus McDonagh handmade his own postage stamps featuring his face for years to mail letters all over the world and was never found out.
35. The waterbed was invented in 1833 by a Scottish physician. He intentionally did not patent it so that anyone could design their own variation of the waterbed and it could help as many people as it could who were suffering from bed sores.
