1Kandu V
An orca from Seaworld named Kandu V attempted to bite a Corky, a newcomer ocra, but broke her own jaw and bled to death in front of thousands.
2. Elaine's father on Seinfeld, played by Lawrence Tierney, was supposed to be a recurring character, but he horrified the cast and made threatening gestures toward Seinfeld with a knife.
3. Richard II (1393) passed an act in the UK for all pubs to have a sign outside the establishment. "Whosoever shall brew ale in the town with intention of selling it must hang out a sign, otherwise he shall forfeit his ale."
4. The Tempest Prognosticator was a 19th-century device that kept 12 leeches inside small bottles. They attempted to climb out of the bottles when a storm was approaching, causing a bell to ring. The number of times the bell was struck indicated the likelihood of a storm.
5. Inventors of bubble wrap were originally trying to make plastic wallpaper.
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6Neil Armstrong
Neil Armstrong's 82-year-old grandmother told him to have a look around and not step on the moon if "it didn't look good". Neil agreed he wouldn't.
7. The 19th-century biologist Sir John Lubbock experimented on ants by getting them drunk. He discovered that sober ants would carry their drunken ant comrades back to their nest if they were from the same colony, but they threw drunken strangers into the ditch.
8. When actor Jackie Gleason needed $200 for a train ticket to New York (he was afraid of flying), he went to a local storekeeper and asked for a loan. When the shopkeeper asked for ID, Gleason took him to a movie theater to watch a movie he was in. Gleason got the loan and paid it back promptly.
9. Wearing a white t-shirt with a large letter "T" on the front is scientifically proven to make you 10% more attractive to women.
10. The guy getting punched in the face on Pantera's album Vulgar Display of Power got paid $300 in total for it. The reason was that it took 30 tries to get it just right.
11Statue of Liberty stamp
The postage stamp of The Statue of Liberty depicts not the real statue in New York, but the replica in Las Vegas.
12. Birds that live close to the ground have low pitched calls that burst with chatter, allowing the sound to cut through ground clutter effectively. Birds that live high in trees have long, high pitched calls, which is more suited for traveling long distances through the air.
13. MTV contacted Weird Al and told him they would not air his "Don't Download This Song" video if references to filesharing programs were not in some way removed, so he "made the creative decision to bleep them out as obnoxiously as possible, so that there would be no mistake I was being censored."
14. When John F. Kennedy met Joseph Luns, the former Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs, Kennedy asked for his hobbies and he answered: "I fok horses", Kennedy, struck with surprise responded: "Pardon?", Luns replied: "Yes, paarden!". 'Fokken' means 'to breed', and 'horses' means 'paarden' in Dutch
15. Morgan Freeman played a singing vampire obsessed with vegetables on The Electric Company in the 1970s.
16That Orange Couch
"That orange couch" from Television series The Wire was originally found in a dumpster by the set crew and used in the Pilot. A month later when the show was picked up, they spent $5,000 building a new couch from scratch because someone threw out the old one.
17. Due to their small brains, koalas are unable to perform complex, unfamiliar tasks such as eat leaves off of flat surfaces.
18. Lisa Montgomery was a Kansas woman who in 2004, strangled a pregnant woman, cut the baby from her womb, then proceeded to show the baby off as her own to her friends and family.
19. Rock musician Chuck Berry created Berry Park in Missouri, his own rock n roll themed amusement park with a guitar-shaped swimming pool, in response to the whites-only country clubs from where he was once excluded.
20. In July 1984, President Ronald Reagan called ice cream "a nutritious and wholesome food" and established National Ice Cream Month.
21Coyote and badger
Coyotes and badgers sometimes hunt together. The badger digs up the prey and the coyote runs it down.
22. Stephen King wrote the book Misery because his fans complained about The Eyes of the Dragon, which was written for his children, not being a horror book.
23. An American schoolgirl named Samantha Smith became famous in the USSR after she wrote a letter to the newly appointed Soviet Communist Party General Secretary Yuri Andropov in 1982, and received a personal reply which included an invitation to visit the Soviet Union, which she accepted.
24. A California man driving in an HOV lane claimed the Articles of Incorporation of his business, which had been placed unbuckled on the driver’s seat, constituted a person, citing a California law that defines a person as "natural persons and corporations". The courts ruled against him, citing "common sense."
25. A man received an emergency satellite locator beacon as a present, didn't read the instructions and ended up triggering 9 false alarm Search and Rescue deployments over the course of 12 weeks.
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RE: Fact #9 (T-shirt) – One experiment doesn’t make it “scientifically proven”. Multiple experiments are needed and then need to be peer reviewed.