26Weihenstephan Abbey
The world’s oldest brewery, Weihenstephan Abbey, is still in operation in Bavaria, Germany. It will turn 1000 years old in 2040.
27. In 1914, the Puerto Rican Congress voted unanimously for independence from the United States. The US Government ignored the vote.
28. A termite queen can live for up to 30 to 50 years.
29. The ancient myths of Australian Aborigines portray the formation of geographical features in Australia, dating to 10,000 B.C., with striking accuracy. The myths corroborate modern geological evidence, indicating they originated as firsthand accounts, preserved for millennia.
30. There are more than 20,000 abandoned villages in the Russian country.
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31Megan Rice
In 2013, an 82 year old nun named Megan Rice and two fellow activists broke into the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, spray-painted antiwar slogans, and splashed blood on the outside of the heavily guarded Highly Enriched Uranium Materials Facility. She was sentenced to 3 years in prison.
32. In 2005, a cardboard box was added to the US National Toy Hall of Fame. According to them, “Inside a big cardboard box, a child is transported to a world of his or her own, one where anything is possible.”
33. Johnny Cash has a younger brother named Tommy Cash who is also a country singer and songwriter. He released a single called “I Didn’t Walk the Line” in 1965.
34. When USSR premier Nikita Khrushchev visited IBM's Silicon Valley research facility in 1959 he showed indifference to computing technology, but he was so impressed by their buffet style cafeteria that he instructed factories across the Soviet Union to implement the self service dining concept.
35. In 2001, American-Canadian singer Alanis Morissette single-handedly extended the Broadway run of "Jane Eyre" by a month, donating $150,000 worth of tickets to poor kids.
