26Curry
Curry has a long history of being served in Britain than fish and chips, with the first Indian restaurant opening in 1809 and fish and chips only being served from 1858 at the earliest.
27. In 1506, Louis II of Hungary was born prematurely and doctors kept him alive by slaying animals and wrapping him in their warm carcasses as a primitive incubator.
28. Apple purchased the iPhone.org domain name in 1999, 8 years before the official introduction of the iPhone.
29. “The road not taken” by Robert Frost was actually written to mock an indecisive friend and intended to inspire no one.
30. Brazil was a monarchy until Crown Princess Isabel signed a law emancipating all slaves in Brazil in 1888. This was unpopular among the rich plantation owners and the imperial family was deposed in a military coup.
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31Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs had just been pruning apple trees in Oregon which led him to call his company Apple. “It sounded fun, spirited, and not intimidating. Apple took the edge off the word computer, ” Jobs said. “Plus, it would get us ahead of Atari in the phone book.”
32. Vermont passed a law in 1999 that the state pie is Apple and one must make a “good faith effort” to serve it with either a glass of cold milk, 1/2 oz. of cheddar cheese, or a large scoop of vanilla.
33. The Boeing 787 needs to be rebooted every 51 days to stop rounding errors, which can cause it to crash.
34. Margaret Hamilton (the Wicked Witch of the East) was badly burned while filming The Wizard Of Oz. After being hospitalized she returned to set but refused to do any scenes with fire so her stunt double took her place in a scene riding a prop that spewed smoke which exploded injuring her as well.
35. When medieval monks would fast for religious reasons, they would sometimes drink lots of beer instead of eating food, since drinking did not count as “food.”
