1Jackson & Queen
The members of the “Queen” band were friends with Michael Jackson. He was the one who suggested they release “Another One Bites the Dust” as a single.
2. The most difficult and rare score to get in 10-pin bowling is not 300, but 292. This requires hitting the first 11 strikes, then rolling exactly 2 pins on your final roll, which is extremely difficult.
3. Mosquitoes cause more deaths in a single day than sharks have in the past 100 years.
4. On August 24, 1919, Ray Caldwell who was pitching for the Cleveland Indians was struck by lightning after playing for 8-2/3 innings. He then got up from the ground, checked himself, finished pitching to get the last out and they won 2-1 over the Athletics.
5. Singer Tina Turner relinquished her US citizenship in 2013 and is now a citizen of Switzerland where she has been living since 1994.
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6Eswatini
As of April 2018, Swaziland has been renamed as Eswatini. One of the reasons behind the King's decision to rename the country was that “… abroad, people refer to us as Switzerland.”
7. As of September 2018, the virtual currencies of games like RuneScape are worth more than the currency of Venezuela.
8. Mel Gibson made more than $395 million from “The Passion of The Christ”, an epic biblical film he self-financed by $30 million.
9. Bill Burr who originally came up with password practices such as changing them every 90 days, using caps/special characters, recanted most of his advice in 2017.
10. There is no national minimum drinking age in the United States. Instead, a law called the National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984 punishes states that allow anyone under 21 to purchase alcohol by cutting their federal highway funds by 10%. The last state to comply was Louisiana in 1987.
11Dwayne Johnson
Dwayne Johnson a.k.a The Rock charges movie companies $1 million to Tweet or Instagram about his movies.
12. Alan Alda met his wife Arlene Alda at a dinner party on the Upper West Side, when a rum cake accidentally fell onto the kitchen floor and they were the only two guests who did not hesitate to eat it.
13. The Shaggs was an all-female rock band, whose members were three teenage sisters who were forced to play in a band by their father. Almost completely musically inept, their album failed to gain any traction until years after Frank Zappa claimed it was one of his favorite albums of all time.
14. There is an all-female anti-poaching combat unit in Zimbabwe called Akashinga ("the brave ones").
15. In the 1960s, the Tucker State Prison Farm scandal unfolded, in which inmates were routinely beaten, tortured with needles under their fingernails, and had their genitals crushed with pliers and electrocuted. Up to 200 inmates may have been murdered and buried around the prison.
16Bishop Chrysotomos
When Bishop Chrysostomos of Zakynthos was ordered by the occupying Nazis to compile a list of resident Jews on the island, he handed over a piece of paper with a single name on it; his own.
17. The voice given for the A.I "Suit lady" also known as "Karen" in Spider Man: Homecoming was none other than Jennifer Connelly who also happens to be the wife of Paul Bettany, the actor who voices J.A.R.V.I.S in the Iron Man films and later as Vision.
18. Horses can only breathe through their nostrils, and their anatomy prevents them from being able to breathe with their mouths.
19. The Boeing 747-200 Air Force One costs $206,000 per flight hour to operate (including fuel, flight consumables, and maintenance), while a commercial 747 costs about $20,000 to $25,000 per flight hour.
20. There is a statue of Jason Voorhees chained under the Crystal Lake located in Crosby, Minnesota.
21Border change
In January 2018, Belgium and the Netherlands swapped land to change their national borders. Belgium's foreign minister noted that "the agreement shows that borders can also be exchanged peacefully."
22. The world’s oldest known spider lived to be 43. Named Number 16, she died in 2017 after being stung by a wasp.
23. Steven Spielberg refused a salary for “Schindler’s List,” calling it “Blood Money,” and believed that the movie would flop. The film went on to become one of the most successful movies of all time.
24. Yogi Bear used to be the mascot of a chicken restaurant franchise, and when they all closed, the statues were dumped in the middle of a forest. This site became a tourist attraction in and of itself, known as the "Yogi Bear Graveyard."
25. There is a 'Richter scale for human calamity' called the Foster scale. According to the Foster scale, World War 2 was the most disastrous event in human history with a score of 11.1, the Black Death ranks number 2 at 10.9, and World War 1 comes at number 3 with 10.5.
