26Fight Club
The scene in Fight Club where Tyler Durden is explaining the cost of a recall when "A car built by my company crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside" is based on an actually leaked memo from GM and Ford.
27. Disney's Space Mountain uses fans to blow air on you to create the illusion that you are going faster than you really are.
28. The language spoken in Wakanda is Xhosa, an official language of South Africa and Zimbabwe and John Kani who played King T'Chaka is a native speaker of that language.
29. Legendary director/actor/pilot John Huston once flew over a celebrity golf tournament and dropped 5,000 ping pong balls on it.
30. Julie d'Aubigny was a 17th-century traveling swordswoman. Among her other exploits, when her female lover was sent to a convent, she also entered the convent, stole the body of a dead nun, placed it in her lover's bed, escaped with her lover and burnt the convent down.
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31Good Samaritan Drug Overdose Act
In Canada, in the event that you need to call 911 for someone who’s overdosed, you won’t get arrested for possession of controlled substances or charged under “The Good Samaritan Drug Overdose Act.”
32. It's illegal to die in Longyearbyen, Svalbard (Norway) because dead bodies don’t properly decompose because of how far north it is. If someone is dying, every effort will be made to ship them to the mainland.
33. American actor James Earl Jones had a terrible stutter as a child and was functionally mute for 8 years because of it. A high school teacher helped him end his silence through Jones' love of poetry.
34. Many courses in German Universities are actually offered in English, and international students don’t even have to meet the German language requirements to apply. In Germany, undergraduate students don’t pay any tuition fees in all the public universities since October 2014.
35. Nuclear Semiotics is an interdisciplinary field of research tasked with warning people more than 10,000 years from now about nuclear waste, when all known languages may have disappeared.
