26US submarine
During World War 2, if a US submarine sank all the targets it engaged, it was considered a "clean sweep" and a broom was attached to the periscope to celebrate their accomplishment.
27. Ronald Reagan’s deterioration from Alzheimer’s got so bad that he once took a mini ceramic White House model out of his fish tank and when asked what he thought it was, he answered, “I don’t know, but it’s something to do with me.”
28. Conus geographus, a species of predatory cone snail is one of the most venomous animals on the earth. Its venom is a mix of hundreds of toxins which it delivers through a harpoon-like tooth and there is no known anti-venom.
29. Trench coat was invented by Thomas Burberry during World War 1 to help crawl and walk through the trenches.
30. In 2015, a team of architects in U.K. led by a man named Jonathan Wilson started an IndieGoGo campaign to raise $2.9 billion to build Minas Tirith, the beautiful city that was built into a mountainside in ‘Lord of the Rings.’
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31Vincent van Gogh
After cutting off his ear, Vincent van Gogh painted a portrait of the doctor who treated him, then gave it to the doctor. The doctor hated it and used it to repair a chicken coop before giving it away. It's now worth $50 million.
32. Osama bin Laden left a will that he had written shortly after 9/11. In it, he urged his children not to join al-Qaeda and not to continue the Jihad.
33. In 1936, after being thrown from his horse, a jockey named Ralph Neves was pronounced dead, brought to the morgue, injected with adrenaline to the heart, jumped up, returned to the racetrack, and demanded to be allowed to ride the rest of his mounts that day.
34. Tatooine from Star Wars is a real town in Tunisia that is spelled Tataouine and it is famous for its cave dwellings.
35. Tongue twister ‘she sells seashells by the seashore’ is about a real girl named Mary Anning. She also happens to be one of the very first people to discover a massive dinosaur fossil. She found it at the age of 12 while looking for seashells to sell by the seashore.
