26Julie Payette
Canada's new Governor General-designate (Julie Payette) is an astronaut, spent time on the ISS, speaks 6 languages, did research at the IBM lab in Zurich, played piano and sang with several orchestras, and has helped make space robots.
27. In 2004, farmers in India used Pepsi and Coca Cola instead of pesticides because they were cheaper and got the job done just as well.
28. In 2013, a man named Harrison Odjegba Okene was found alive in an air pocket on a sunk ship after three days of no water, no food, and in pitch black.
29. Australian prime minister Harold Holt who served from 1966 to 1967, one day, while in office, went for a swim and just disappeared without a trace.
30. There's a Battery in Oxford that's lasted 176 years and there's no telling when it will run out of energy.
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31Bill Gates and Paul Allen
While in middle-school, Bill Gates and Paul Allen had their computer privileges revoked for taking advantage of software glitches to obtain free computer time from the company that provided the computers. They were allowed back in the computer lab when they offered to debug the program.
32. Every night in Providence, Rhode Island, skyscrapers, tugboats, hotels, and police cars flash and blink their lights on and off at 8:30 to tell kids at children's hospitals good night.
33. There's a town in the Oklahoma panhandle named "Hooker" and its slogan is "It's a location, not a vocation".
34. Philip II (Father of Alexander the Great) threatened Sparta with "if I bring my army into your land, I will destroy your farms, slay your people, and raze your city.". The Spartans simply replied with "if.". Neither Philip nor Alexander attempted to capture the city.
35. We produce a lot of salivae just before vomiting in order to protect our teeth from erosion due to the acidity of vomit.
