26Memorial to Heroic Self Sacrifice
The Memorial to Heroic Self Sacrifice is a London monument commemorating ordinary people who died saving the lives of others and who might otherwise have been forgotten.
27. Following LeBron James' decision to leave Cleveland and join the Miami Heat, the sports memorabilia company Fathead lowered the price of wall graphics depicting James from $99.99 to $17.41: the birth year of infamous American traitor Benedict Arnold.
28. A Spanish archives director named Carles Recio only showed up to work to sign-in and sign-out for 10 years. During the time that he was "working," he ran a male brothel and was an erotic comic book artist who created a busty superheroine named Fallarela "who hurls flaming Valencia oranges at her enemies."
29. It costs less than a dollar to charge your phone all year.
30. Ham, the chimp who was the first hominid in space, was trained by NASA to operate a capsule in space. His trainer described the moment he was recovered from his capsule following the project as “I have never seen such terror on a chimp’s face.”
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311903 Wright Flyer
Astronaut Neil Armstrong took a piece of fabric from the left wing of the Wright Brothers' 1903 Flyer and also a part of the propeller to the moon, aboard the lunar module Eagle on July 20, 1969.
32. Broccoli is a human innovation and a man-made food, being a result of the selective breeding of wild cabbage plants, which started around the 6th century B.C.
33. Clocks run clockwise because in the Northern hemisphere that's how sundials cast a shadow.
34. In 2016, firefighters in Pana, Illinois found German cockroach infestation so massive that the city council agreed that the best option was to burn the house down.
35. Animal rescue organizations in the US are placing "unadoptable" cats with businesses as natural pest control. In many cases, this positive socialization leads to the cats becoming affectionate permanent employees of the companies.
