26Tony Dighera
A farmer named Tony Dighera developed a plastic mold to put over his pumpkins so that they grow into the face of Frankenstein. Known as "Pumpkinsteins", it took him 4 years, 27 varieties of pumpkin and $400,000 to perfect his idea.
27. Almost an entire French town in 1951 was poisoned by ergot, the fungus LSD is made from. ”I am dead and my head is made of copper and I have snakes in my stomach and they are burning me,” screamed one man before trying to jump into a river.
28. A Somali pirate named Mohammed Abdi Hassan fell into a "movie trap" in Brussels. Thinking that he would work on a documentary, he was instead arrested as soon as he disembarked from his flight.
29. In 1919, James Cowan Smith donated £55,000 to the National Gallery of Scotland on the condition that a picture of his dog Callum be on display permanently in the Gallery. It still is on display to this day.
30. A pod of orcas hunted cooperatively with early Australian whalers under a "law of the tongue". They would corral and locate prey in return for the tongues and lips of captured whales. The arrangement ended when one of the orcas was accidentally killed.
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31Betty White
American actress Betty White is older than Mickey Mouse.
32. Many rock drawings of animals by native Americans have turned out to be complex regional maps, with the animals representing herd locations. They were both hunting guides and warning signs.
33. A Sixth-grader's science fair project discovered that Truvia sweetener is an insecticide.
34. Actor Mel Brooks put on a prosthetic 11th finger for adding his handprint on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
35. Rollercoasters were invented to distract Americans from sin. In the 1880s, hosiery businessman LaMarcus Thompson didn’t like that Americans were going to places like saloons and brothels and created the first roller coaster on Coney Island to persuade them to go there instead.
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RE: Fact #32 (Rock drawings) – technically these are petroglyphs which are rock etchings (not just drawings) made into the granite which oxidizes over time which is how you get the contrast and can actually age the figures. These glyphs also correspond to time with many figures accompanied by sun circles or seasonal indicators like the monsoon