26No Mans Land
There is an island in Massachusetts named “No Mans Land”. The island is now an unstaffed animal refuge and is closed to public use due to safety risks from “unexploded ordnance”, as it was previously utilized by the U.S. Navy.
27. Steve Martin has a ringing in his ear called tinnitus, which he received while filming a pistol-shooting scene for the film, Three Amigos in 1986. He was quoted saying, "You just get used to it, or you go insane.”
28. In 1968, Vermont banned billboards to preserve the state's natural beauty. It is one of 4 states in USA to do so.
29. In 2006, Michael Vick started a charity for at-risk youth. The charity spent $20,000 of its budget on programs for kids, paid $97,000 to a friend of Vick's who acted as the foundation's "fundraiser" and gave the remaining $50,000 in its bank account to Vick's financial adviser.
30. A 19-year old boy named Tom Lyle Williams created the mascara "Maybelline" in 1915, when his sister Maybel used a mixture of Vaseline and coal dust to darken her eyelashes after a mishap.
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31Glenn Seaborg
In 1980, nuclear physicist Glenn Seaborg transmuted several thousand atoms of bismuth into gold at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. Seaborg's technique would have been far too expensive to enable routine manufacturing of gold, but his work was close to the mythical Philosopher's Stone.
32. All the 360 kgs of lunar soil samples brought back from the Apollo missions have now rusted after corroding their vacuum bottle seals and being exposed to water and oxygen in the Earth's atmosphere.
33. "Video Killed the Radio Star" was the best selling record in Australia for 27 years.
34. 96% of U.S. pet-custody cases involve dogs. Only 1% involve cats.
35. The creator of Maker's Mark bourbon did not have time to distill and age whiskey to taste test it, but he had created seven possible grain recipes and was unsure which to pick. He baked bread with each one, and the best tasting bread was picked as the grain "mash bill" recipe for Maker's.
