26Wanda Sykes
The Gimbel's manager in the film "Elf" wears a "Wanda" name tag because Wanda Sykes was originally cast in the role.
27. The ancient Romans enjoyed visiting new places as much as anyone nowadays. The Romans' favorite attraction was the Pyramids of Giza, and local tour guides lied to them in order to entice them and make money from them.
28. Philo Farnsworth, the inventor of the television, was a 15-year-old farm boy when he got the idea for scanning an image in rows from the back and forth motion of plowing a field.
29. The hip-hop duo Fab Morvan and Rob Pilatus from Milli Vanilli, along with the original vocalists, were duped by their record producer, and they were the ones who exposed the lip-sync controversy to the media in 1990. The original vocalists were furious that they weren't the stars, and Rob and Fab were upset that they wouldn't let them perform.
30. Rather than enrolling students or giving out degrees, the London-based Gresham College presents more than 140 open lectures each year for the general public. Online access has been provided to all of their lectures since 2001.
Latest FactRepublic Video:
15 Most Controversial & Costly Blunders in History
31Poo On the Moon
In order for the Apollo lander to take off without incident, the astronauts had to abandon some of their belongings on the moon. Among these were 96 bags of poop, urine, and vomit, as well as golf balls, cameras, boots, and a telescope, among other objects.
32. Milne suffered from acute PTSD after serving in World War I, and the sounds of flying bees and exploding balloons brought back painful memories of gunfire and explosions. He wrote the Winnie the Pooh stories as a lighthearted diversion and a way to convey the difficulties of war to his child.
33. Your brain outsources memory when you take pictures instead of seeing the scene directly, which makes you remember less information than you would otherwise. It's called the photo-taking impairment effect.
34. Pele's Hair is the local name for the strands of hair-like glass that some Hawaiian volcanoes produce. Even with gloves, it is insidiously sharp and difficult to handle.
35. Despite the plant burning down in 1995, Malden Mills CEO Aaron Feuerstein opted to continue paying his 3,000 employees their full wages during the reconstruction process. This resulted in Feuerstein losing $25,000,000, his job as CEO, and his filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in November of 2001. In 2007, Malden Mills declared bankruptcy once more and ceased operations.
