26Edward Dickinson Baker
Edward Dickinson Baker was serving as a U.S. Senator when the U.S. Civil War broke out. He therefore re-joined the Army as a colonel. He was killed in battle and remains the only sitting U.S. senator ever to have been killed in a military engagement.
27. Rhnull is the rarest blood type on Earth. In 49 years, Rhnull has only been found in about 43 people around the world.
28. Despite his lady's man reputation, Elvis Presley avoided intercourse with most if not all of his early girlfriends, even Priscilla before they were married. One biographer suggested that The King developed an extreme fear of STDs during his military service.
29. Free services like Craigslist have decimated the classified advertising departments of newspapers, some of which depended on classifieds for 70% of their ad revenue. Research has shown that Craigslist cost the newspaper industry $5.4 billion between 2000-2007.
30. In 1920, The New York Times ridiculed Robert H. Goddard and claimed that rockets could not function in space. On July 17, 1969, a day after the Apollo 11 launch, New York Times formally acknowledged their error.
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31Native Americans
In many old Westerns, since nobody in charge was able to translate Native languages, many Native American extras would ad-lib or make jokes in their own language.
32. Though his music career famously sank, Vanilla Ice has kept himself afloat nicely with his home improvement show, “The Vanilla Ice Project.” He now has an estimated net worth of $18 million.
33. Mr. Robot actor Rami Malek has an identical twin named Sami Malek, who works as a teacher. They occasionally swap places.
34. Between 1990 and 2007, robots took the jobs of an estimated 670,000 US workers.
35. The former dictator of the Central African Republic, Jean-Bédel Bokassa, forced the nation's school children to buy expensive uniforms from a company he owned. When the children protested, he had 100 of them executed as an example.
