26Credit card
Those responsible for the hack of Target's customers' credit card data entered through the HVAC system's internet connection which was serviceable via the web and connected to the same server as the credit card data.
27. In 2015, the director of Paranormal Activity produced "Area 51", about four friends sneaking into the secret base. The movie budget was $5 million, but it grossed only $7556, losing 99.8%.
28. Van Gogh sold a total of one painting (The Red Vineyard) during his lifetime.
29. The CIA admitted to the existence of Area 51 in 2013, eight years after a Freedom of Information Act request was filed.
30. There are two birth anomalies - superfecundation (twins with separate fathers) and chimerism (absorbed twins), that if combined, will create a single human with two biological fathers.
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31Jason Grimsley
In 1994, Cleveland Indian’s relief pitcher Jason Grimsley crawled through the Comerica Park air duct with a flashlight in his mouth to get into the umpire’s room so he could switch out Albert Belle’s confiscated bat because he knew it was corked.
32. In 2000, an off-duty Vancouver police officer and his dog found $1 million in a trash dumpster, who gave it to 'Lost & Found'. Nobody claimed it so he got to keep it.
33. People are more likely to donate to a sick dog than a sick child. A charity ran an experiment where they asked for money and exchanged the picture of a child for that of a dog. More people chose to donate to the dog.
34. Not only do 1 in every 10 people have a tiny second spleen called an accessory spleen, but also that if the main spleen is removed, the tiny second spleen can grow to function as a new spleen.
35. Ashpan Annie survived the catastrophic explosion in Halifax, Canada in 1917 as a baby, protected from the explosion by an iron stove and kept warm for over 24 hours by the ashes. Annie lived to be 95.
