26Aphantasia
An estimated one in fifty people suffer from Aphantasia, a condition in which the person’s “mind eye” is blind and they can’t picture things just by thinking about them.
27. Hospitals in the United States report a 24% spike in heart attack visits due to patients getting one hour of less sleep when switching to daylight saving time.
28. Almost any parent-child combination of eye colors can occur. The genetics of eye color are complex and has moved on from the original thought that eye color was determined by a single gene, with brown being dominant and blue recessive.
29. During their 2002 World Cup qualifying match against Australia, American Samoa team had 19 of its players out because of passport issues and the under-20 team replacements were unavailable due to school exams. As a result, they only fielded one regular player. They lost 31-0.
30. Crocodiles play by carrying flowers in their mouths and giving their smaller companions rides on their backs.
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31Parrot's blood
In 1931, a 15-year-old girl suffering from paralysis was mistakenly injected with the blood from a pet parrot after her family physician called a nearby hospital for advice and misheard “parent's blood” as “parrot's blood.”
32. Jurassic Park's visual effects were so groundbreaking to filmmakers that it inspired Peter Jackson to begin work on Lord of the Rings, George Lucas to start on the Star Wars prequels, and Stanley Kubrick to invest in his pet project, A.I (Artificial Intelligence).
33. Coffee does not dehydrate you. In fact, it hydrates the body nearly the same as water.
34. If humans lived long enough, they would all eventually develop cancer. This is because of inherent limits in the DNA repair mechanisms.
35. After France surrendered in June 1940, the Royal Navy sailed down to Algeria to seize the bulk of the French navy. When the French refused to surrender control of the ships, the Royal Navy open fired, destroying the fleet and killing 1300 French sailors.
