26World Cup referees
World Cup referees run 6 to 8 miles per game. All while scrutinizing plays and communicating with players and other officials. Players run around 7 miles per game which dwarf what NFL, NBA or MLB players run per game.
27. In 1923, a jockey suffered a fatal heart attack but his horse finished and won the race, making him the first and only jockey to win a race after death.
28. In 2001, Vince Vaughn and Steve Buscemi got into a bar brawl with North Carolina locals, with Vaughn getting maced and Buscemi being stabbed in the face, jaw, and neck
29. Most deaths from overdoses occur when a recovering addict relapses and takes a dose that they've by then lost the tolerance for.
30. King Cobra is called as "King" because it can eat other species of snakes, and their poison doesn't affect it.
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31Sabbath elevators
Sabbath elevators are the ones which stop at every floor so that Jews using them do not have to operate machinery on the Sabbath because it's forbidden
32. It costs 1.67 cents to make 1 cent coin because of the cost of materials, production, and distribution
33. The co-founder of Dreamworks Animation, Jeffrey Katzenberg, was fired from Disney even though he's mostly responsible for the studio's revival in the early 90's. Katzenberg sued for $90 million but received $270 million because Disney wouldn't settle.
34. Annie Dookhan, a crime lab chemist in MA, intentionally mishandled thousands of samples. As a result, more than 20,000 convictions had to be dropped en masse.
35. In 1926, Agatha Christie vanished without a trace. Thousands of volunteers helped search, along with planes in the sky, and dogs on the ground. After 11 days, a musician recognized her at a hotel, where she was living under a fake name. Christie died without ever having explained her absence.
