26Fez hat
Wearing of the Fez hat is illegal in Turkey, having been banned in 1925.
27. Chocolate for most of its 4,000-year history was actually consumed as a bitter beverage rather than as a sweet edible treat.
28. Michele Miscavige, the wife of the leader of the Church of Scientology, hasn't been seen in public since August 2007.
29. Singer Lorde has sound-to-color synesthesia, a unique condition where sound blends with sight to create certain colors. This greatly contributed to the creative process of "Melodrama", where she wrote music to the "violets and blues" that appear on the album's cover.
30. The US has a 200-year-old pending Amendment which would strip citizenship from any citizen who accepts a title of nobility from a foreign country.
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31Xmas trees
Fake Xmas trees have to be used for 20 years to be more environmentally friendly than using real trees.
32. Keanu Reeves turned down an $11 million offer to reprise his role as Jack Traven in "Speed 2: Cruise Control" in favor of playing the main role in "The Devil's Advocate" opposite to Al Pacino.
33. American musician Tom Morello was a stripper after graduating from Harvard. He went by the name Tom "Meat Swinger" Morello.
34. Dogs develop bite inhibition, the ability to control the strength of a bite, as puppies after learning that too harsh of bites often interrupt play.
35. A group of guys made a to-scale model of the solar system in Black Rock Desert, Nevada. They felt that pictures online couldn’t capture the size of our solar system and they wanted to give an accurate example.
