26Wallace's Segregationism Reversal
Despite famously campaigning in the 1970s on "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever," Alabama Governor George Wallace later renounced segregationism, publicly apologized to the black community, and appointed record numbers of African Americans to state positions and his cabinet.
27. There are more than 300 types of headaches, but only about 10% of headaches have a known cause. Brain tissue and the skull are never responsible since they lack nerves that register pain.
28. John F. Kennedy didn't invite Sammy Davis Jr. to his 1961 inauguration because Sammy had married a white woman. JFK was concerned that the presence of an interracial couple would upset southerners. In solidarity with Sammy, Dean Martin, angered by this news, refused to attend the inauguration.
29. Deep Lake is a body of water in Antarctica with a salinity 10 times higher than the oceans, and therefore it never freezes, even in winter. Conditions in the lake are so hostile that almost no life can survive there.
30. According to the regulations of Formula 1, each team is permitted to only use a maximum of 25 teraflops of double precision (64-bit) computing power for simulating the aerodynamics of their cars.
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31Live Ammo Training for WWII
In World War II, British commandos were trained to instinctively take cover by experiencing live ammunition being fired 3 to 5 feet from them if they needlessly exposed themselves while maneuvering.
32. When pitching Bratz dolls for retailers to sell, they were only interested in purchasing the white, blonde, blue-eyed doll (Cloe). The CEO of MGA Ent. rejected the offer unless they purchased all four dolls. The dolls grossed $2 billion in sales in their first five years on the market.
33. In 2016, the nation of Iceland sued a British supermarket chain, Iceland Foods, to have all its trademarks invalidated and won.
34. Pablo Picasso, for a time, carried a Browning pistol loaded with blanks. He would fire it at people he found boring or anyone who insulted the Post-Impressionist painter, Paul Cézanne.
35. The original aluminum apex of the Washington Monument was the largest piece of aluminum in the world, measuring just 5.6 inches (14 cm) by 8.9 inches (23 cm) because, at the time (1884), aluminum was as rare and valuable as silver.
