26The Single Tax Movement
The single-tax movement, also known as geoism or georgism, advocates that government funding should rely on a tax on land rent rather than taxing labor.
27. António Egas Moniz, a pioneer of the lobotomy procedure, was honored with the Nobel Prize in medicine in 1949. Subsequently, the Nobel Foundation has not revoked the award, and there remains an active article from the foundation defending this decision.
28. The restriction on single riders for Ferris Wheels at many amusement parks isn't primarily about the gondola's weight balance; it's largely aimed at reducing the risk of potential suicide attempts.
29. In 1815 B.C., it took Sumerian scribes approximately a year to grasp the art of multiplication, and they even went as far as signing and dating their homework.
30. Golden Week in China is a 7-day holiday during which workers receive 4 paid days off between 2 weekends, allowing everyone to travel and visit distant family.
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31Burr, Hamilton, and the Manhattan Bank
One of the reasons Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton had their famous duel was because Burr wanted to turn the Manhattan Company into a bank. After Hamilton's death, he achieved this by helping establish the Manhattan Bank, which later became JPMorgan Chase.
32. 601 Lexington Avenue in New York City, once the 7th-tallest building in the world, was in danger of toppling over in high winds due to a structural error. This issue was secretly fixed, and the public had no knowledge of the problem until an article about it emerged decades later.
33. In 1917, when the US Army tested what later became known as the M1917 Browning Machine Gun, it fired non-stop for 48 minutes and 12 seconds (over 21,000 rounds) without a malfunction. Some irregular forces still use it today, having entered service in the latter stages of World War 1.
34. The highest coefficient of inbreeding among the Habsburg dynasty was 0.3053, and it belonged to Maria Antonia of Austria. Her coefficient was higher than that of a child born to a parent and child or brother and sister. Her father was her mother's maternal uncle, and her paternal first cousin, once removed, and her maternal grandparents were related as uncle and niece. Remarkably, she was also the niece of Charles II of Spain, one of history's most infamous examples of inbreeding. Interestingly, despite her even higher degree of inbreeding, she did not encounter the same health issues that plagued Charles II.
35. The Austrian wine industry collapsed in 1985 after it was discovered that several large wineries had been using diethylene glycol (a component of antifreeze) to sweeten their wines.
