26Gaddafi
In 2009, Libyan leader Gaddafi called for Switzerland to be dissolved and divided up between neighboring countries after Swiss police arrested his son for beating up hotel staff. In 2010, he declared jihad on the country.
27. After George Patton liberated Ohrdruf Concentration Camp, he brought the mayor and the mayor’s wife to see the camp. After they left, they hanged themselves.
28. A clock is being built inside a mountain in Texas that will keep time for 10,000 years with minimal to no human interaction. One of the reasons for building the clock is to get people to think long term.
29. The ancient Greeks used to choose their politicians via a method called "sortition", much like how potential jurors are selected today. And, like jury duty, it was seen as an inconvenience to those selected.
30. In the middle ages, some kings had clothes made from "Salamander fur" which were completely fire-proof and bright white. The name likely comes from the common belief that Salamanders were "born from fire". The clothes were actually made out of asbestos.
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31Grigori Perelman
Grigori Perelman, the mathematician who solved the Poincare Conjecture, which is one of the 7-millennium problems, denied the million dollar prize money as well as the Fields Medal. Rest of the 6 problems still remain unsolved.
32. Richard Branson has dyslexia and had poor academic performance. On his last day at school, the headmaster told him he would either end up in prison or become a millionaire.
33. Winston Churchill was nearly killed in a car accident in New York in 1931 after trying to cross the street and look at the wrong side of the road forgetting he was in the United States and not in the United Kingdom where driving directions are reversed.
34. Lego’s brick making equipments and techniques are so accurate that only 18 in every million bricks made are defective, which are then recycled.
35. Peru and Ecuador went to war against each other in 1941. Neither country was part of Axis or Allies. So, this was an international conflict that happened during World War 2, which had remotely nothing to do with any aspect of World War 2.
