26Owls' Eye
Owls cannot move their eyes. This is because their eyes are not balls, but cylinders that are held in place by bones called sclerotic rings. This is also the reason why owls have evolved to be able to rotate their head 270 degrees left and right, and 90 degrees up and down.
27. The prototype of the Rolls Royce Ghost was so quiet inside that it made test drivers sick. The engineers had to remove some of the noise-isolating material and create seats that vibrated at specific frequencies to introduce some noise into the interior.
28. Every December 21, the inner chamber of Newgrange a prehistoric Irish monument that predates Stonehenge is illuminated for 18 minutes by the rising sun.
29. Polish writer Andrzej Sapkowski sold the rights to CD Projekt Red to create the Witcher video games for a lump sum of $9500.
30. Many Victorian mothers would use a self-feeding bottle to give their babies milk instead of breastfeeding. These bottles were made of earthenware and glass and were incredibly hard to clean which caused severe bacteria to build up and caused the deaths of thousands of babies.
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31Nazi Killer Sisters
Freddie and Truus Oversteegan were two teenage sisters who lured, ambushed, and killed a lot of German Nazis from their bicycles. They never really revealed how many Nazi men they had assassinated.
32. If a camel rejects her newborn or there is a need to adopt an orphaned calf, Mongol herders use a chanting ritual accompanied by fiddle or flute to coax her into accepting the calf. The camel mother may act aggressive initially, so the herders will change the melody depending on her behavior.
33. When the Titanic rammed an iceberg, William Murdoch, the officer in charge, was portrayed in the film as shooting a passenger and then committing suicide. In reality, he was last seen trying to fill as many lifeboats as possible and heroically went down with the ship.
34. In 1993, a French man driving a Citroen car in a remote area of the Moroccan desert had a breakdown and became stranded. To survive he tore down the car, built a motorcycle from the parts, and rode it back to civilization. When he arrived he was ticketed for operating an illegal vehicle.
35. Jurassic Park was meant to use stop motion instead of CGI, but two artists worked on a CGI T-Rex in secret, and once they finished it, they quietly put a video of it on screen when producer Kathleen Kennedy visited their office. The video convinced Kennedy, Spielberg, and the rest of the team to use CGI.
