26Leon Lederman
Physicist Leon Lederman wrote a book about the Higgs Boson, which he named "The Goddamn Particle" but his publisher didn't like it and shortened it to "The God Particle", and the nickname stuck.
27. David Bowie's real name was Davy Jones, which he changed due to the success of The Monkees (Rock Band). His next name was Tom Jones, which had to be changed again.
28. Timothy Evans was a Welshman who was tried, convicted, and hung for the murder of his daughter. Throughout the trial, he blamed his downstairs neighbor for the murder. Three years later, his downstairs neighbor confessed.
29. The majority of North Korean clothes are made from Vinylon, a synthetic fiber made of coal and rocks. It is the only country in the world to do so.
30. Apophis (named after the Egyptian God of death and darkness) is an asteroid that will pass earth closer than our own satellites orbit on Friday 13th, 2029. It will touch our atmosphere, and we will be able to see it, wiz, overhead. There is a debated chance of it impacting Earth when it returns in 2036.
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31Blanche Monnier
After she wanted to marry a lawyer whom her mother disapproved of, a woman named Blanche Monnier was locked by her mother in her room for 25 years. She was discovered and rescued by the police in 1901.
32. In 2008, the Municipality of Florence officially apologized for expelling Dante Alighieri (Italian poet) 700 years earlier.
33. Nostalgia takes us back around 30 years, which is why there are so many 80's references these days. This is because a critical mass of people who were consumers of culture when they were young are the creators of culture in their adulthood.
34. In Peru in 2007, a meteorite impact caused a "mystery illness" that turned out to be widespread arsenic poisoning from the meteorite evaporating contaminated groundwater.
35. Hong Kong's independence has an expiration date. China can, based on the deals signed in 1997, reunite Hong Kong in 2047.
