26Dorothy Kilgallen
Dorothy Kilgallen was a panelist on the hit TV show "What's My Line?", died under what some consider mysterious circumstances while investigating the assassination of JFK. Shortly before she died, she told a friend, "I'm going to break the real story and have the biggest scoop of the century."
27. "On Broadway" versus "Off Broadway" refers not to location but theater capacity. A play/musical is considered "on Broadway" if the theater seats 500+ while an "off-Broadway" theater seats between 100-499. "Off-off Broadway" refers to venues that seat less than 100.
28. The shortest scientific paper ever published had zero words. A clinical psychologist Dennis Upper attempted an experiment: to combat writer’s block by writing about it. His experiment failed, but no results are results all the same, and the paper was published.
29. Jerry Seinfeld dated a 17-year-old girl named Shoshanna Lonstein Gruss when he was 39 years old.
30. Adult Swim put an entire episode of Rick and Morty (Rixty Minutes) on Instagram using 109 15 second clips, in reverse order, so that viewers couldn't watch sequentially until the last clip was posted. They said, "It's our latest frustrating exercise in audience engagement."
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31Whale's skull
A whale's skull is so thick that it requires a world war 2 anti-tank rifle to euthanize one that has beached itself.
32. American guitarist Jimi Hendrix was discharged from the army due to sleeping on duty and being caught masturbating.
33. In London during the 1930s, infants were commonly hung outside apartment windows in "Baby Cages" so that they could get enough fresh air and sunlight.
34. When Carl Linnaeus was in Hamburg, the mayor proudly showed him the remains of a seven-headed hydra. Linnaeus found out the remains were fake and made it public. As a result, Linnaeus was forced to leave Hamburg immediately, as he crushed the mayor's dream of selling the hydra for a large sum.
35. The vestal virgins were a group of six women recruited at age six to tend the flame of the goddess Vesta. Expected to serve for 30 yrs, if their virginity ever came into question they were buried alive as punishment.
