26Cavendish banana
There are many different types of bananas, including one that tastes like vanilla ice cream, however many of us only eat the common Cavendish banana, which has the most important commercial trait of surviving overseas shipping.
27. Chuck E. Cheese’s backstory is that he was an orphan and didn’t know when his birthday was. This made him sad so he started throwing birthday parties for kids.
28. The Leonberger breed of dogs were used a lot in both World Wars in and around Germany. So many of the dogs were abandoned or killed in action due to invasions that every currently living Leonberger can be traced back to only 8 that remained after World War 2.
29. Actors have to pay $30,000 to have a star on the Hollywood walk of fame.
30. Isla Fisher almost drowned during the filming of the piranha tank scene in the movie “Now You See Me.” She had to give the impression of being in distress but when Isla's chains became entangled for real, she began to genuinely panic and everyone thought it was just very good acting.
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31Domestic horses
Domestic horses can detect negative emotion in human facial expressions.
32. The leading cause of non-natural death in the 20th Century was democide, which is a term used to denote “the murder of any person or people by their government, including genocide, politicide and mass murder.”
33. When the dying star VY Canis Majoris collapses, it will produce 100 times more energy in one second than our sun will produce over its entire 10 billion year lifetime.
34. Researchers have recently discovered multiple hidden “civilizations” of octupuses which they are referring to as Octlantis.
35. McDonald's is experimenting with playing classical music over the restaurants' loudspeakers at night in hopes of stopping fights from breaking out.
