1Thailand prison fight
In Thailand, there is a prison program where prisoners fight foreign MMA fighters for their freedom. After winning 8 fights the prisoner is freed, if you lose a fight, you go back to general population where you never have a chance to fight again.
2. The highest-grossing Chinese film (The Mermaid) of all time is a romantic comedy about a playboy businessman who falls in love with a mermaid who was sent to assassinate him.
3. During the California Gold Rush, the distinct lack of women in San Fransisco caused the gay culture to flourish. Men would often pay for "female impersonators" to be prostitutes.
4. Major Harold Hering was discharged from the Air Force in late 1973 for asking the question "How can I know that an order I receive to launch my (nuclear) missiles came from a sane president?" under Richard Nixon.
5. Lola Montez was an Irish woman who passed herself off as Spanish, had affairs with Franz Liszt, Alexandre Dumas and the king of Bavaria (who made her Countess, triggering a popular uprising and his own abdication), and later lived in Australia and the US Far West, all before dying at 40.
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6Judy Garland
MGM studio placed 16-year-old Judy Garland on a diet of chicken soup, black coffee, cigarettes, and amphetamines to keep her appetite under control
7. Sudan had approximately 255 pyramids, twice the amount in ancient Egypt.
8. Under Southern Africa, there's a geographical anomaly where Earth's magnetic field is reversed. This might indicate that the entire planet's magnetic field might reverse again sometime in the future.
9. The dinosaurs far pre-date Betelgeuse, one of the brightest and most famous stars in the night sky. In fact, the star was born around the same time as pre-humans walked the earth.
10. The Ket language is spoken by 200 people in central Siberia is considered to be in the same language family as Navajo. That would make Ket speakers the only remaining members in Eurasia of the original population that colonized the Americas.
11Namib Desert Beetle
The Namib Desert Beetle drinks water from the fog, as it moves across the desert. The droplets collect on the beetle's shell & trickle down to its mouth. It shells architecture is being studied by scientists to improve water harvestation.
12. Tic Tacs are labeled in the US as containing zero sugar because US federal regulations state that if a single serving contains less than 0.5g of sugars it is allowable to express the amount of sugar in a serving as zero, and each Tic Tac weighs just under 0.5g.
13. Cats have evolved to mimic the sound of an infant crying to attract our attention.
14. Astronomer Carl Sagan was denied membership in the National Academy of Sciences, reportedly because his media activities made him unpopular with many other scientists.
15. Trey Parker was convinced the South Park episode "Make Love Not Warcraft" would do poorly and lamented having to air it. The episode instead became one of the most well regarded of the series.
16Kurt Gödel
Genius mathematician, philosopher, and logician Kurt Gödel starved to death after his wife was hospitalized because he did not trust eating food prepared by anyone else.
17. The Washington Generals broke a 2495-game losing streak by accidentally beating the Harlem Globetrotters 100-99.
18. Studies by researchers has found that people who love grilled cheese sandwiches tend to have more sex.
19. The New York City Subway still operates several train cars constructed in 1964 in regular service. This specific model owes its longevity to its superior durability, craftsmanship and structural quality. Retired cars from this model are shipped out to the Atlantic Ocean for artificial reefs
20. Beverly Cleary, the author of popular children's books “Beezus and Ramona” and “Henry Huggins” is still alive at the age of 103 (as of September 2019).
21Rory
Cats can get blood transfusions from dogs, and this once saved a cat from dying after it ate rat poison.
22. There is a pig chief character named Spa'am in "Muppet Treasure Island." Hormel Foods (the makers of Spam) filed a lawsuit against Jim Henson Productions which failed. The judge who dismissed it said, "one might think Hormel would welcome the association with a genuine source of pork."
23. Michael Jackson's estate continues to earn more than $100M annually, peaking at $825M in 2016.
24. Armpit odor is completely dependent on a single gene (ABCC11) and that many East Asians (and almost all Koreans) do not need to wear deodorant because of this gene.
25. In 2012, investigators discovered Wal-Mart de Mexico had bribed various government officials in order to increase Walmart's growth in the country. They found a paper trail of hundreds of suspect payments totaling more than $24 million. Wal-Mart executives in the US tried to bury the matter.
