26Paracetamol
Tylenol, Acetaminophen, and Paracetamol are the same drug and are just various abbreviations of the drug’s full name para-acetylaminophenol (para-aceTYLaminophENOL, para-ACETylAMINOPHENol, and PARA-aCETylAMinophenOL).
27. Project Thor explored using large projectiles from 1,000+ miles above the Earth. The “rods from Gods” would be a bundle of telephone-pole-sized tungsten rods, which when dropped from orbit could reach up to 10 times the speed of sound. The explosion it could create would be on par with a nuke, but without any nuclear fallout.
28. Skipping breakfast does not lead to weight gain, health issues or underperformance.
29. "Canuck the Crow" is an infamous bird in Vancouver, Canada. It has been photographed stealing a knife from a crime scene, breaking into McDonalds, chasing a mailman. It is still being tracked and swooping people to this day (as of June 2018).
30. BMW used prisoners from concentration camps like Dachau to build their cars and plane engines during the World War 2. By the end of the war, almost 50% of the 50,000-person workforce at BMW consisted of prisoners from concentration camps.
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31Bean boozle flavor
A 'bad' Bean Boozle flavor is made by super-heating the actual disgusting item, putting it through a "gas chromatograph," isolating the chemical makeup and converting it into "flavor markers" for the jelly bean.
32. In 1777, during a shortage of coffee and sugar in Boston, a crowd of over 100 angry women marched to a wealthy merchant’s warehouse, demanded the keys, and grabbed him by the neck when he refused. They opened the doors, loaded up carts with coffee, and left.
33. Male elephants experience a condition called "musth" in which their testosterone levels can get up to 60 times higher than normal. Elephants become so violent during musth that scientists struggle to study the condition, leaving its cause largely a matter of speculation.
34. The hallucinogen found in "magic mushrooms" triggers brain activity patterns that are similar to those seen when someone is dreaming.
35. Snails’ teeth are the strongest natural material on the Earth. They can withstand pressures high enough to turn carbon into diamond.
