26Samuel Maverick
Samuel Maverick was a Texas rancher who refused to brand his cattle, which led to the word 'maverick' meaning someone who is independently minded.
27. Princess Diana was 19 when Prince Charles, 31, proposed to her. Because royal custom required Charles marry a virgin, nearly every other woman of good lineage nearer his age was disqualified.
28. An Olympic rower named Henry Pearce stopped mid-race to allow ducklings to pass by him and he still won the race.
29. Jet Li turned down a role in The Matrix Reloaded because Hollywood producers wanted to record and copy all of his martial arts moves into a digital library, with all rights going to them.
30. For almost 300 years, the office of the Pope was almost certainly a death sentence. 28 of the first 31 consecutive Popes were violently murdered.
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31Tetris
When a simple AI was taught to play Tetris, the best solution it found was to pause the game just before the screen filled up so it would never lose.
32. Dr. Mary Walker was an abolitionist, suffragist, surgeon, and the only female Medal of Honor recipient. She advocated for women to wear what they wanted. She’d often get arrested for wearing men's clothes, though she insisted “I don't wear men's clothes, I wear my own clothes.”
33. In 2001, a Massachusetts man named Kenny Waters was wrongly imprisoned for 18 years for murder. He was finally freed after his high-school drop-out sister went to law school and fought the courts for him to prove his innocence. However, 6 months after his release, he died in a freak accident.
34. Country Time Lemonade once offered free legal assistance when children’s lemonade stands were being ticketed by local governments. They titled the service, Legal aid.
35. In 2017, a dog named Odin refused to leave his flock of goats behind during the California Tubbs Fire as his owners fled to safety. Days later, the owners came back to their property to find Odin survived and managed to keep all the goats alive.
