26Xbox Controller
It takes about 3 million presses to wear out a button on an Xbox controller.
27. Followers of the Yazidi religion do not eat lettuce, as it is thought that when a 13th-century Yazidi saint was executed, the crowd pelted him with heads of lettuce.
28. There has never been a documented case of rabies being transmitted by one human-biting another. All of the recorded cases of human-to-human transmission of rabies occurred through organ transplants from infected donors.
29. The Virginia Opossum has 13 nipples, making it one of the few mammals with an odd number of nipples.
30. A man named Shi Pei Pu was a Chinese Opera Singer turned spy who obtained secrets from a French embassy worker for 20 years by masquerading as a woman during their sexual affair. He even took a child and pretended it was theirs.
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31Indigenous Blood Type
The "O" blood type is the most common blood type among the indigenous populations of the Americas. Within the Central and South American populations, in-particular, its frequency is nearly 100%.
32. Keeping cats on ships has been a long-held seafaring tradition due to their efficiency as a form of pest control and the supposed luck they brought to vessels. It is thought that cats were spread around the world by groups such as the Ancient Egyptians, Vikings, and Age of Discovery explorers.
33. At amenity movie theaters, cry rooms were started in the 1940s. These were small areas at the back of a theater where those with unruly kids could continue to watch the film. The presence of these rooms declined greatly by the 1970s due to the rise of multiplex theaters.
34. Actress Thandiwe Newton decided to correct her name in April 2021, after a 30-year-long career of going by ‘Thandie’ due to a misspelling in the credits of her first film.
35. In 1993, Burger King briefly offered table service during dinner hours, offering popcorn as a table appetizer.
