26Bob Lemmons
Born a slave, a Texas man named Bob Lemmons was an expert "Mustanger" in the 1800s. Freed from the Civil War, he learned to tame horses. Usually, herds of wild mustangs were run down by groups, but Lemmons worked alone. Riding with the herd for several weeks, he'd gradually take over, mount the stallion and lead the horses into a corral.
27. A woman named Mary Anning discovered the first ichthyosaur fossil at the age of 12 with her brother. She would go on to discover many more fossils and revolutionize the science of paleontology. However, due to being a woman in the early 1800s, she rarely received full credit for her discoveries.
28. There are several “harbinger zip codes” in USA which are inhabited by people who tend to buy unpopular products that fail and tend to choose losing political candidates. Their home values also rise slower than surrounding zip codes. Many companies use these areas to predict market failures. This is a yet to be explained phenomena where people are "out of sync" with the rest of the population.
29. Before the Hoover Dam was built, there used to be a town where Lake Mead is now, called St. Thomas. The entire town was purchased by the federal government and abandoned. The water level of Lake Mead has fallen so much in recent years that parts of the town can be now be seen and explored (as of August 2022).
30. Commercially produced Mayonnaise has a high enough acidity that bacterial growth associated with food-borne illnesses is slowed and the product doesn’t need to be refrigerated.
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31Peter Pan's Fairy Dust Addition
Fairy dust was not mentioned in the original version of Peter Pan, but the author added it as a necessity to enable the children to fly because after reading his book, many children tried to fly from their beds and needed surgical attention.
32. In 1846, Joseph Leidy was the first person to solve a crime using a microscope. A farmer claimed the blood on his clothes was chicken blood. Joseph Leidy showed that it was not chicken blood using a microscope.
33. Back in 1910, Citibank took over the national bank of Haiti, which besides being the sole commercial bank also served as the Haitian treasury. Then in 1915 after both withholding Haitian funds and paying rebels to destabilize the country, Citibank pressured the US Government to occupy Haiti.
34. Pythagoras who postulated the ‘Pythagoras Theorem’ was a cult leader who claimed he could speak with animals, time travel and had an extreme hatred for fava beans.
35. After basketball player Zion Williamson's foot ripped through his Nike shoe during a game, causing him to slip and sprain his knee, Nike's stock valuation dropped by $1.1 Billion the next day.
