26Jurassic Park: The Ride
On the 1996 opening day of the Jurassic Park: The Ride at Universal Studios Hollywood, Steven Spielberg boarded the ride but requested that he be let off before the 86 foot (26 m) drop.
27. Serbian wedding guests accidentally downed a small plane with celebratory gunfire in 2003.
28. Pencils never actually contained lead. People just called it that because they thought graphite was a type of lead.
29. The alien in the Alien movie was played by a Nigerian man named Bolaji Badejo. He died of sickle cell anemia in 1992, at the age of 39.
30. Roland the Farter, the court jester of Henry II was given a manor in exchange for having to perform 'One Jump, One Whistle, and One Fart' at each Christmas.
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31South Korean women
South Korean women are nearly 8 inches (approximately 20 cm) taller today than 100 years ago.
32. Calico cats are almost always female, and orange cats are almost always male.
33. The US Postmaster General is the 2nd highest paid US government official behind the president.
34. American business magnate Steve Jobs once told a reporter that taking LSD was "one of the two or three most important things", he did in his life.
35. The most Edgar Allen Poe was paid for a single work was $100 for his story 'The Gold Bug'. He earned $9 for his most famous poem 'The Raven' which made him a celebrity. He lamented, "I have made no money. I am as poor now as ever I was in my life—except in hope, which is by no means bankable".
