26Charles Sumner
In 1856, American politician, Preston Brooks (D), beat Senator Charles Sumner (R) with a cane on the floor of the United States Senate in retaliation for an anti-slavery speech. He resigned his seat later in the year, only to be reelected to the same position left vacant by his resignation.
27. There is a long history of US Vice Presidents disliking the job. John Adams called it "the most insignificant office... contrived," FDR's Vice President Garner called it "not worth a bucket of warm piss," and Truman joking Vice Presidents were "about as useful as a cow's fifth teat."
28. Players of an online game called Foldit resolved the structure of an enzyme in just three weeks.
29. Gwyneth Paltrow's father forbade her from accepting a lead role in the movie "Cool as Ice" starring Vanilla Ice because he thought it could hurt her career.
30. To his inauguration, Wyoming's first Democratic governor, George Parrott (also known as Big Nose George) wore shoes made from the skin of a lynched train robber
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31Oxpecker
There are birds named Oxpecker and Vampire finch that drink blood.
32. In 2000, a Korean couple spent their life savings to bring a Pan Am 747 to Seoul and set it up as a restaurant. The restaurant failed, leaving the couple living in a hut below the airplane. The 747 was torn down for scrap metal in 2010.
33. A plaque honoring Martin Luther King, Jr. mistakenly thanked his assassin, James Earl Ray, instead of actor James Earl Jones. When officials received their plaque they were horrified to discover that it bore an inscription thanking James Earl Ray for “keeping the dream alive”
34. Military units break step when marching over bridges to avoid causing a resonate wave that could collapse the structure.
35. In 2007, a new parking garage in Germany ended up with two parking bays that had a peculiar shape and required a complicated parking maneuver in order to park there. Officials declared them Men's Parking Spaces to discourage unskilled drivers from attempting the maneuver.
