26Democracy Sausages
Australians traditionally eat sausages at polling places on election day, and they're called Democracy Sausages
27. Shamu, Sea World's famed Killer Whale, has been dead since 1971 and they just recycle the name for new Orcas in their shows.
28. The founder and the original leader of the Rolling Stones got kicked out of the band and then died less than a month later
29. Dr. Seuss once wrote a Warner Bros. film called Going Home, that was banned because it accidentally predicted the Manhattan Project
30. The Voynich Manuscript obeys the law of Zipf, making it very plausible that it's either derived from a real language or is an incredibly advanced hoax.
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31Napolean home visit
When Napoleon returned to France, the King sent troops to stop and kill him. He stepped out in front of them & said: "if there is one among you who wants to kill his general, his Emperor, here I am." The royalists cheered wildly, "Long live the Emperor." They joined his cause.
32. The Holodomor Genocide was a man-made famine that killed millions in Soviet Ukraine from 1932-1933.
33. Lord Byron's nickname for William Wordsworth was William Turdsworth
34. Sonny Landham, who played the quiet, reflective Native American tracker Billy in "Predator", was notoriously violent and difficult to work with. Eventually, the insurance company for the film forced the studio to hire a full-time bodyguard to protect the cast and crew from Sonny.
35. 91.4 % of 9/11 survivors put off evacuation to shut down Computers or to go to the bathroom before evacuating.
