26Whiskey Milkshake
One of the original ingredients for a Milkshake was Whiskey.
27. One of the earliest recorded variations of the classic dad phrase "Women: can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em" is found in a speech from 102 B.C. by Roman Censor Q. Caecilius Metellus Numidicus, in a speech that would be repeated by Caesar Augustus nearly a century later.
28. Approximately 7.7% of men and 4.8% of women in the general population have narcissistic personality disorder, a mental illness characterized by grandiosity and a general lack of empathy.
29. The reason Hawaii has the union jack on the top of its flag isn't because they were colonized by the UK, but rather because the Hawaiian king at the time liked the design of the British flag when they arrived.
30. The Pope is the head of two separate and distinct sovereign entities. The first one obviously is the Vatican City, a sovereign city state, and the second one is the Holy See, a sovereign juridical entity that acts as the Universal Catholic Central Government.
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31The Empire State Building
The Empire State Building, built-in 1930 was designed with the ability for an Airship/Zeppelin to dock at the very top of the skyscraper, overlooking all of NYC.
32. ‘The Red Cell’ is a special forces team led by the original commander of SEAL Team 6, Richard Marcinko. Their main objective is to test the security of government installations of USA. They often sneak into military bases, steal classified information, kidnap high-ranking officers and admirals, and once even planted bombs near Air Force One.
33. When his film Uncut Gems began to receive critical acclaim, Adam Sandler threatened the world with making "the worst movie ever" if he did not receive a nomination for Best Actor at the Oscars. He was not nominated.
34. The Dutch secret service set up a fake pro-China communist party to gather information on the Chinese government. The party's leader, secret agent Pieter Boevé, developed warm relations with the Chinese government and even met Mao Zedong himself.
35. Senater Daniel Inouye, who has served 50 years in the U.S. Senate, destroyed 3 German machine-gun nests in a single assault during the World War 2 Italian Campaign. The third nest was destroyed after Inouye grabbed a live grenade from his severed right hand and threw it through the firing slit with his left hand.
