26Humans Walk in Circles
Humans will walk in circles when lost unless there is some sort of external reference point.
27. Bruce Willis turned down the role of Sam in the movie Ghost. He said he didn't understand how the movie would work with the main character being dead for the majority of the movie, and the role went to Patrick Swayze. Nine years later Willis would star in The Sixth Sense.
28. In 1921, spiritualists Thomas Lynn Bradford and Ruth Doran decided to test whether it was possible to communicate with the dead. Bradford killed himself by sealing his apartment and turning on his gas stove and planned to appear as a ghost to Doran after his death. He didn't.
29. In ancient Rome, masters discouraged slaves from running away by putting a tattoo reading "Stop me! I am a runaway!" on their foreheads. At a temple of the Greek god of healing, thousands of tablets from escaped slaves asking the god to make the tattoos on their forehead disappear have been found.
30. In 1986, the small New Zealand town of Otorohanga briefly changed its name to "Harrodsville" in support of the local restaurant Harrods, which was facing lawsuits by the famous London department store of the same name. In addition, every business in town changed their name to “Harrods.”
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31Mercy Brown Vampire Incident
After her death, Mercy Brown’s heart and liver were burned, and the ashes mixed into a tonic that was given to her sick brother to drink. Her father believed that she was a vampire and that the tonic would cure the brother of tuberculosis. It however didn’t cure him and he died two months later.
32. Escher Sentences seem to make sense at first, but actually have no coherent meaning and convey no information. An example is "More people have been to Berlin than I have".
33. The elderly couple seen hugging on the bed in Titanic (1997) while water floods their room were the owners of Macy's department store, Rosalie Ida Straus and Isidor Straus. Ida refused a seat on a lifeboat, stating "Where you go, I go" which inspired Rose's line in the film.
34. It took Taco Bell food engineers two years and 40 different recipes to create the Doritos Loco Taco. It became so popular that it led to Taco Bell adding 15,000 jobs, propelling the company to outgrow Pizza Hut, KFC, and even McDonald’s.
35. Music is a 'Cultural Universal', which means it is a thing that is common to all known human cultures worldwide. These include Personal Names, Sexual Jealousy, Proverbs, and Incest Prevention or Avoidance.
