26Cyanide Pills
Cyanide pills were distributed to audience members of the last Berlin Philharmonic concert on 12 April 1945 as Allied forces approached Berlin and the surrender of Germany seemed imminent.
27. When you love getting attention and hate it at the same time is called Hedgehog's dilemma.
28. Alberto Fujimori who was the president of Peru between 1990 and 2000 was a full-blooded Japanese.
29. There are 5 parasitologists who wrote and are giving away a free textbook on the human parasite to everyone because they want to increase awareness/ help cure many preventable diseases.
30. An Artificial Intelligent computer engine named Cyc became confused by a story of a man shaving. The AI understood that people do not contain any electronic parts, but considered the man holding the electric razor as one entity, and asked if he was still a person while he was shaving.
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31Snapple
In 1992, financier Thomas H. Lee purchased Snapple from its founders for $140 million. Two years later he sold it to Quaker Oats for $1.7 billion. Less than 3 years later, after investing additional hundreds of millions on the brand, Quaker sold it for $300 million.
32. Grant Kirkhope, the composer of Donkey Kong 64, is still embarrassed by the DK Rap since he created it as a joke.
33. Leafy green vegetables account for more food born illnesses than meat. Researchers are especially worried about the "ready-to-eat" salads sold in many stores.
34. There is a $1 million treasure chest waiting to be discovered in the Rocky Mountains if the 9 clues in a 24-line poem can be solved.
35. Jake ‘The Snake’ Roberts “can't stand snakes [and is] scared to death of the damn things”, but he still carried around a 100 pounds python and later on a king cobra with him because “there were enough zeros on [his] contract to make him forget about his fear [of snakes]”.
