26Harper Lee
In 1966, Harper Lee (American novelist) donated $10 to a school board that tried to ban To Kill a Mockingbird with a note that said: "I hope [the $10] will be used to enroll the Hanover County School Board in any first grade of its choice."
27. Sarah Jessica Parker, who played a witch convicted in the Salem witch trials in the Disney movie "Hocus Pocus", later discovered that one of her ancestors was a real woman accused of witchcraft during the Salem witch trials.
28. The frog known as the "Hairy Frog", "Horror Frog", or the "Wolverine Frog" is so aggressive that it will literally break its own bones, force them through the skin, then use them as claws to attack even humans.
29. The real Casa Bonita restaurant has to track when the Casa Bonita South Park episode airs to ensure their staffing level meets the increased demand that day.
30. The American Sign Language for “pasteurized milk” is the sign for “milk” while moving your hand past your eyes.
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31Daniel Everett
In the 70's, missionary Daniel Everett came to a Brazilian indigenous tribe to try to convert them. Instead, they "deconverted" him to atheism.
32. On March 6, 1967, Stalin's 41-year-old daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva defected at the U.S. embassy in New Delhi, India, where she publicly denounced Communism and “embraced God, America, and apple pie.”
33. Thomas Paine (American political activist) narrowly avoided the guillotine due to a severe fever. When a man came to chalk an X in the cell's door to mark the prisoner, the man marked the inside of the door since it was open to aid Paine's fever. When the door was later closed, no mark could be seen outside the cell.
34. The actor that played Anakin in Star Wars: Episode 1 - Phantom Menace (Jake Lloyd) quit acting as a result of being bullied for his role in the movie, eventually leading to him being placed in psychiatric care after crashing his car during a high-speed police chase.
35. The secret police in Communist Romania (Securitate) subjected the leaders of a 1977 coal miners' strike to 5-minute chest X-rays to ensure that they developed cancer.
