26Ruth Snyder's Execution Photo
On January 12, 1928, Ruth Snyder received the death penalty by electric chair. She was secretly photographed mid-execution, which became the first photo of an execution by the electric chair printed in the media.
27. In the Mossdale Caverns tragedy, a party of ten went into it, and four of them left after three hours. When one of the four returned and found the entrance flooded, she alerted rescuers, but the water made entry impossible, resulting in the discovery of five bodies the next day, and the sixth was found the day after.
28. The Norden Bombsight, used by US bomber aircraft in World War II, cost $1.1 billion to research and produce, about half as much as the Manhattan Project and over a quarter of the cost of all B-17 bombers manufactured. While it was successfully precise in state-side testing, it was far less accurate in combat.
29. While Danny Trejo was filming "The Muppets: Most Wanted!" his mother passed. The cast all offered their sympathy, but he shrugged it off because of his 'tough guy' persona. It wasn't until Steve Whitmire apologized in character as Kermit the Frog that Trejo broke down crying.
30. Hilda Yolanda Mayol, a woman who survived the 9/11 attacks, boarded AA Flight 587 out of John F. Kennedy International Airport two months later. Five minutes after takeoff, the plane crashed, and all 260 occupants perished. It was the second deadliest aviation incident in US history.
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31Michael Bay's Saving Private Ryan Exit
Michael Bay was originally hired to direct Saving Private Ryan but left because he couldn't figure out how to approach the film.
32. DC Comics enraged "Fables" creator Bill Willingham so much that in 2023 he made the comic public domain and encouraged its use by creators, effectively undermining the publisher's efforts to control the property. DC had published "Fables" for 20 years, but Willingham retained copyright.
33. The Japanese founder of McDonald's Japan authored "The Jewish Way of Doing Business." The book was an immediate success and went on to sell over a million copies.
34. The surface organics of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, surpass Earth's oil reserves. It has hundreds of times more liquid hydrocarbons than all the known oil and natural gas reserves on Earth, according to Cassini data.
35. In 1920s Paris, Irish novelist James Joyce would get drunk, start fights, and then hide behind Ernest Hemingway for protection, screaming, "Deal with him, Hemingway!"
