26The Office's Expensive Proposal Scene
The most expensive single scene shot in the entire run of "The Office" was Jim and Pam's proposal scene, costing $250,000 and lasting 52 seconds. The gas station set was built in about nine days in a parking lot, featuring a four-lane racetrack around it with 35 precision drivers.
27. While filming "Firstborn" (1984), 12-year-old Corey Haim complimented the acting performance of 41-year-old Peter Weller. In response, Weller threw Haim up against a wall and demanded that Haim never speak to him after a take. Haim later admitted that the experience left him terrified.
28. At one point in the 1980s, China had an estimated 400,000 Esperanto speakers, and the language was taught at several universities. Now, only one Chinese college Esperanto program remains.
29. Galileo Galilei dismissed the notion that the moon influences the tides as "childish" and "occult." Instead, he argued that tides result from the sloshing motion of the earth.
30. Farm-raised salmon are not naturally "salmon" colored. They are gray and are given astaxanthin to make their flesh closer in color to wild salmon, making it more appealing to consumers.
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31Yu-Gi-Oh Card Tournament Change
In 2007, a player entered a Yu-Gi-Oh card tournament with a 2222-card deck to highlight the need for a deck card limit. The rule was subsequently changed to set a limit of 60 cards per deck.
32. The Inuit from Greenland traveled to Scotland via kayak. The first recorded instance was in 1682, but it's possible that Inuit had made the trip hundreds of years prior. One of their kayaks is even preserved in Aberdeen, Scotland.
33. The "Boss key" was a fairly common feature in early PC games designed to make it appear to superiors and coworkers that employees were working when, in reality, they were playing video games.
34. Australia's first government-backed pill and drug testing service, after its first month of operation, discovered that all the cocaine tested had purity levels below 27%, with 40% of the samples containing zero cocaine.
35. Shiniuzhai, a convenience store hanging on a cliff in Hunan, has been nicknamed the "most inconvenient convenience store" in China.
