26Saigon Evacuation Helicopter
The famous Saigon evacuation helicopter photo at the end of the Vietnam War was not from the US embassy but from the roof of an apartment building that housed senior CIA personnel.
27. In the early 20th century, mother's pensions were used to help poor mothers in the US stay at home so they could take care of their children. During this period, it was common for poor women to give up their kids to orphanages. These cash payments were intended to prevent that.
28. Praying Mantises have never been an endangered species, and it has always been legal to kill them in the United States. The contrary claim was just an urban legend floating around since the 1950s.
29. Many bird species some purposely get bitten by ants. This releases a kind of venom that kills parasites on the bird's feathers.
30. Your body has a relatively constant total daily energy expenditure. It will allow temporarily elevated caloric burns but the more days that you increase your expenditure, it will normalize your daily expenditure by showing or shutting down other processes.
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31Henny Youngman
Comedian Henny Youngman was known for his workman attitude to the profession. Even after becoming famous Youngman would often try to perform multiple times a day, searching for ongoing events like weddings and bar mitzvahs for him to negotiate an on-the-spot performance.
32. Ted Turner created his own alternative to the Olympics, the Goodwill Games, and Turner believed international sporting competitions would prevent future wars. The Games lasted from 1986 to 2001 and featured the first major international beach volleyball event.
33. Ancient civilizations developed iron tools well before the Iron Age by finding meteorites made of iron and nickel that didn't require smelting.
34. In Asia, honeybees smear their hive entrances with animal poop to ward off murder hornets. This is one of the few observable times that insects have used tools.
35. A Wall Street restaurant named ‘The Exchange Buffet’ operated on the honor system, where customers tallied their own bills. It ran successfully from 1885 to 1963.
