26Olivia de Havilland
Olivia de Havilland, an actress who starred in Gone With The Wind dated Howard Hughes. She is still alive at the age of 101.
27. In 1981, archaeologists discovered a medieval knight's body in Saint Bees village in England which still had liquid blood, intact organs and visible irises.
28. The Talmud (Jewish book of Rabbinical debate) is a best seller in South Korea. South Koreans endorse the stereotype of Jews being successful in education and business so they started studying the Talmud as a means of acquiring Jewish success.
29. Pepsi was originally called "Brad's Drink."
30. There are large shipwrecks buried deep under the cornfields of Kansas City, Missouri.
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31William Rankin
In 1959, Colonel William Rankin became the only known person to survive a fall through a cumulonimbus thunderstorm cloud and suffered from frostbite, welts, bruises, and severe decompression as a result of the 40-minute fall.
32. There has not been a single occurrence of a wild killer whale (orca) killing a human.
33. A single lightning strike killed about 323 reindeers in Norway in 2016 because they were clustered together and the electric current was able to travel through the ground and up the animals' legs.
34. Chrisopher Lee was a special forces commando, and corrected Peter Jackson on the actual sound one makes when being stabbed in the back.
35. Not only are Gentoo penguins fiercely monogamous, they will violently banish any "cheaters" from their colonies.
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RE: Fact #9 (Marijuana) – Based on a single study which, scientifically, doesn’t hold much regard. Multiple studies are in order to determine the validity of this claim.
RE: Fact #26 (Olivia de Havilland) – Passed away in 2020 at the ripe old age of 104.