26Space Harrier
During the development of arcade game Space Harrier, the president of SEGA insisted that if the graphics were done, a game was ready for release. To properly finish the game, the lead designer rigged a secret switch to the bottom of his desk that would mess up the colors whenever giving a demonstration.
27. Heartbreak can cause severe physical pain and nausea. This is believed to be part of the survival instinct. The "social-attachment system" uses the "pain system" to encourage humans to maintain their close social relationships by causing pain when those relationships are lost.
28. In 1974, Jimmy Carter gave an alumni speech at the University of Georgia Law School. Instead of honoring the alumni, he delivered a speech attacking the injustice in the judicial system so mercilessly that Hunter S. Thompson later named him as one of the three meanest people on Earth.
29. 75% of the world's food is generated from only 12 plants and 5 animal species.
30. Freddie Mercury held a party in New Orleans in 1978, which featured nude waiters and waitresses, a man biting heads off live chickens, naked models wrestling in a liver pit, and dwarves walking around with trays of cocaine strapped to their heads.
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31Stacey Hightower
Detroit has the worst 911 response time in America, with police and EMS taking over an hour to show up. In 2013, despite numerous 911 calls, police arrived 90 minutes later to find Stacey Hightower had been murdered by an intruder. Her mother sued the city of Detroit, but they were bankrupt.
32. In 2016, Disney sold the streaming rights for the original Star Wars films to Turner Broadcasting until 2024. Now that Disney is planning to start a streaming service, they have repeatedly been asking for the rights back but Turner has refused every time.
33. After China made a ripoff of American cartoon "The Amazing World of Gumball", the "Gumball" creators added the ripoff characters to the show as a group of money-grubbing copycats.
34. During the 2009 MTV Movie Awards, Sacha Baron Cohen, who wore a jockstrap and wings as Bruno, crash-landed on Eminem's lap, buttocks aloft. Eminem, who left the ceremony in disgust, returned to his hotel room and laughed for 3 hours. He later revealed that it was mutually staged.
35. American actor Humphrey Bogart stood up for Lena Horne when her Hollywood neighbors tried to kick her out because she was black. He said “if anyone bothers you, please let me know.”
