26Sue
Sue, the most complete T. Rex skeleton, was discovered by paleontologist Sue Hendrickson when she and her crew got a flat tire at the end of their field season. During repairs, Hendrickson found bones at a cliff face leading to the discovery of larger bones in the cliff's formation.
27. In 1990, a man named Iben Browning predicted a massive earthquake would hit New Madrid, Missouri on December 3rd. The prediction sparked a panic. Schools in 5 states closed, and over 200 media outlets sent reporters to the area. Browning had no seismology expertise, and nothing happened.
28. When David Attenborough's series "Blue Planet II" aired in 2017, so many Chinese fans downloaded the programme on the country’s online Tencent Video channel that the internet in China temporarily slowed down.
29. The Earth's rotation and speed changes with the weather and geological events. This means atomic time and solar time may not be identical. Sometimes leap seconds are needed for an adjustment. On 31 Dec 2016, a leap second was added, and the time 23:59:60 existed.
30. In Western dress codes, technically a black-tie event is still only 'semi-formal', as a full formal dress is 'white-tie', which for men requires a coat with tails.
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31Stephen Hawking
When Stephen Hawking was diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) in 1963, doctors predicted he had about 2 and a half years to live. Fortunately, the disease progressed much slower than the doctors expected, and Hawking lived up to 76 years before dying in March 14, 2018.
32. There is no Wendy's in Europe due to a local Dutch snack bar owner owning Wendy's trademark in Europe. They have been in a legal battle for years and Dutch courts side with the snack bar every time.
33. European bison herds move by majority rule. Each bison “votes” by facing the direction it wants to go and the herd goes in the direction chosen by the largest number.
34. The white dashed lines on US highways are 10 feet long and the space in between them runs 30 feet long. Most people believe that they are only 2-4 feet long at most.
35. Some Inuit groups used to ridicule in the form of song duels as a means of conflict resolution. Two men who had failed to resolve a conflict by other means would secretly compose derisive songs about their adversary. The whole camp gathered in a large igloo to observe the song duel.
