26Michael Donald
The last time a black man (Michael Donald) was lynched by the KKK was in 1981, and the police officers first on scene first presumed it was a drug deal gone wrong.
27. Winston Churchill had an oxygen mask made for him for flying in high altitude airplanes during World War 2 that was customized to allow him to smoke cigars through a hole in the mask.
28. Cocaine and alcohol have nearly identical rates of addiction
29. Benjamin Franklin was an advocate of “air baths”, during which he would spend up to an hour reading or writing in his house completely nude.
30. New York's underground gay bars of the 1960's (including the Stonewall Inn) were actually created and supported by the Mafia. It was illegal to be gay. The mob paid off local precincts to keep them from doing raids.
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31Heather Bresch
Heather Bresch, the CEO behind the increase in EpiPen costs, was awarded a master's degree she did not properly earn because she was the governor's daughter, leading to the dean at West Virginia resigning.
32. Astronaut Sunita Williams was the first person to run a marathon in space, finishing in 4 hours and 24 minutes on a treadmill aboard the International Space Station.
33. When Kelli Garrett, one of the only survivors of the Toy-Box Killer, escaped after two days of captivity, neither the police nor her husband believed her story. Her husband divorced her believing that she had been cheating on him the night she was attacked.
34. Brazil has replaced almost 42% of its gasoline needs with sugarcane ethanol making gasoline the alternative fuel in the country.
35. The author of The Anarchist Cookbook, William Powell, was just 19 when he wrote the book in 1969. He later disavowed the violent ideology that he advocated in the book and wished to have the book "quickly and quietly go out of print”. He passed away in July 2016.
