26Caucasian skull
The term "Caucasian" was first used for skull traits, not skin color. Caucasian populations were thus not exclusively "white," but ranged in complexion from white-skinned to dark brown.
27. Prince had an underground bank vault that held enough unreleased music to put out an album every year for a century.
28. American singer Andrew W.K. was named the Person of the Year in 2018 by the American Association Of Suicidology "due to his consistent and powerful use of positivity to improve the lives of those who hear his music."
29. Jason Weaver, the singer who voiced Simba in the original 'Lion King' turned down $2 million upfront to take royalties instead.
30. Japan had no intention of surrendering after the nukes were dropped until Emperor Hirohito stepped in. This made some generals so mad that they tried to stage a coup to overthrow the emperor to keep the war going.
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31Edward I
Before Edward I was king of England, he was a prisoner of Simon de Montfort. One day, he asked if he could ride the guard's horses and raced them one by one. When he got to the last horse, he rode off to freedom, and all the other horses were too tired to give chase.
32. Trees have a maximum height of 426 feet and cannot grow taller due to the opposing force of gravity.
33. Hoxne Hoard is the largest treasure hoard in Britain that was accidentally found by a man when he set out with a metal detector to find a hammer he had lost on a farm. It was a 1500-year-old treasure hoard hidden by the Romans. The British government rewarded him with £1.75 million. He found his hammer afterward.
34. Lois Duncan, the author of "I Know What You Did Last Summer" and many other teen horror and suspense novels in the '70s and '80s had a teenage daughter that became a victim of an unsolved murder in 1989. Duncan essentially stopped writing in her genre and the murder is still unsolved today.
35. When you eat a lot of green vegetables, some chlorophyll remains intact and when they pass through blood vessels near the surface of your skin, they engage in photosynthesis and you produce ATP (obviously in very small amounts).
