26French Legion's Citizenship Provision
If a member of the French Foreign Legion is wounded in battle, they can immediately apply for French citizenship under a provision known as "Français par le sang versé" ("French by spilled blood").
27. The baby Sacajawea carried for 2000 miles was Jean Baptiste Charbonneau. He was delivered by Meriwether Lewis, raised by William Clark, lived in a German castle for six years, spoke four languages, served as a military scout, fur trapper, and gold miner. He is buried in an Oregon ghost town.
28. A pop-up restaurant named "The Restaurant of Mistaken Orders" in Japan hired only elderly people with dementia to reduce the stigma attached to it. The customers still ate the food they were served, even if the waiters got it wrong.
29. James Earl Jones and Carrie Fisher never met until they made cameo appearances in an episode of The Big Bang Theory.
30. The Woolworth Company (aka Woolworth's) did not go out of business but rather changed its name to that of its most profitable division: Foot Locker.
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31Coca-Cola's Inventor Journey
John Stith Pemberton was a Confederate officer who became addicted to morphine after receiving a saber wound. Pemberton made a series of concoctions in an attempt to cure his addiction. Pemberton's experiments with coca and kola resulted in Pemberton's French Wine Coca and, later, Coca-Cola.
32. Many animals spend much of their time doing nothing, even those we think of as particularly busy. "If you look at a colony of ants, bees, or any social insect, really, maybe a little less than half of them are just standing around doing what looks like nothing."
33. In 2002, members of a simulated Mars mission in Utah uncovered an actual dinosaur fossil during a mock spacewalk.
34. When Captain Francesco Schettino was asked why he abandoned the sinking Costa Concordia cruise ship in 2012 while the ship's passengers were either dying or trying to escape, his excuse was that he accidentally fell into a lifeboat. He received 16 years in prison for his role in the incident.
35. Three years after winning gold at the 2004 Olympics, wrestler Rulon Gardner and two friends' plane crashed into Lake Powell, Utah. The three men swam for an hour through 44°F (7°C) water to the shore and waited all night without shelter for rescue. All three men survived.
