26Penny Brown and Kevin Stephan
In New York, a woman named Penny Brown saved a little boy’s (Kevin Stephan) life giving him CPR after being hit in the chest with a baseball bat. About 7 years later, in 2006 that very same boy saved her from choking to death giving her the Heimlich maneuver in a restaurant that he worked.
27. The terms "left" and "right" politics appeared during the French Revolution of 1789 when members of the National Assembly divided into supporters of the king to the president's right and supporters of the revolution to his left.
28. In 1954, a flight Ernest Hemingway was on crash-landed in Africa. He and his companions were rescued and put in another plane, which burst into flames on the runway. Finding the door jammed, Hemingway used his head as a battering ram, butted the door twice and got out.
29. Dolphins can see our skeletons and sense our heartbeats via their sonar. They have even been known to ward off sharks preying on humans.
30. According to the USA’s National Hot Dog & Sausage Council, you should not put ketchup on your hot dog after the age of 18.
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31Robin Williams
In one scene, Matt Damon can be seen laughing really hard with his co-star Robin Williams, in the movie Good Will Hunting because Robin Williams had improvised the last line in the scene where he talks about his wife farting in bed.
32. If the Sun was scaled down to the size of a white blood cell then the Milky Way would be the size of the continental United States.
33. In the Shawshank Redemption, Andy Dufresne actually crawls through chocolate syrup in the sewer scene, and the tunnel where it was filmed still smells like chocolate today.
34. Georgia in USA has a set of giant stone slabs, etched with "rules" for post-apocalyptic humanity in many different languages. It can be used to chart the sun and stars, and warns against "petty laws and useless officials". No one actually knows who funded the construction of this monument.
35. The decision to ground all planes in the U.S. on September 11th was made by a man named Ben Sliney, one of the FAA's National Operations Managers. It was his first day in that position.
