26Amir Vehabovic
A Bosnian man named Amir Vehabovic faked his own death including forging a death certificate and bribing undertakers, just to see who would come to his funeral. Only his mother showed up.
27. Nicolas Cage won China's 'Best Global Actor' award in 2013.
28. Netflix monitors what is being illegally downloaded on BitTorrent and other pirate sites in order to work out what shows they ought to try and purchase.
29. The chains that you can see hanging under school buses and trucks are there to provide traction in snow. With the flip of a switch, the chains will lower automatically and the centrifugal force sends the chains into action.
30. Hall of fame boxer, Sugar Ray Robinson once backed out of a fight because he had a dream that he was going to kill his opponent in the ring. After a priest and a minister convinced him to fight, Robinson went into the ring and killed his opponent, Jimmy Doyle in the fight.
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31Tylenol Cold and Tylenol Flu
The only difference between Tylenol Cold and Tylenol Flu is the box. They have exactly the same medical ingredients.
32. In 1929, a tower named Sugarloaf Key Bat Tower was built in Florida Kеys to control mosquitos. It was filled with bats, which promptly flew away, never to return.
33. It isn't "base jumping", but rather B.A.S.E. jumping. It refers to the four categories of fixed objects from which one can jump: building, antenna, span, and Earth (cliff).
34. Pope Francis worked briefly as a chemical technician and nightclub bouncer before entering the seminary.
35. There are thought to be 100,000 uncharted mountains under the sea.
