26Michael Keaton
Actor Michael Keaton got his start in show business as a production assistant on Mister Rogers' Neighborhood. He helped with the puppets and ran the trolley.
27. On the 12th of September 1897, 21 Sikh soldiers held their own against 10000 enemy tribesmen at the battle of Saragarhi, killing 180 and buying enough time for the nearby British fort to prepare and suppress the insurrection. All 21 were given the Indian Order Of Merit.
28. A Dutch bike company named Vanmoof prints televisions on their boxes and this has reduced shipping damages by 70-80%.
29. In 2005, a mountaineer named Ricardo Peña found a wallet in the Andes mountain range that belonged to a person named Eduardo Strauch who was involved in a plane crash in 1972. When he realized that Eduardo had survived the crash, he returned the wallet, more than 30 years after the crash.
30. Due to China’s early discovery and love of ceramics they didn’t produce any glass between the 14th-19th century. This meant they didn’t have mirrors and windows etc, leaving them behind in sciences, as they didn’t make lenses and other things fundamental to science.
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31Old Blue
A Black Robin named Old Blue has become the mother of her entire species when she was the last fertile female in a group of 5 Robins. There are now 250 Black Robins on the Chatham Islands and have raised their status from Critically Endangered to Endangered.
32. American actor Matthew Lillard originally screamed until his voice went hoarse and scratchy to achieve his voice for Shaggy in Scooby Doo. He even did it in his car before his audition at Warner Bros in Los Angeles.
33. The US military developed a set of playing cards with the names and faces of the most wanted members of Saddam Hussein's government on them so that the American troops would learn to recognize them while playing cards.
34. A grasshopper mouse from the Sonoran Desert is immune to scorpion venom and howls at the moon, thus having the nickname “werewolf mouse.”
35. Kryptonite was introduced in the Superman story five years after the comic was first published. It was created as a way to give Clayton Collyer, the actor that played Superman/Clark Kent in the radio show, some time off so he could take a vacation.
