26Buster Keaton
Buster Keaton was an international mega silent movie star but broke down after movies with sound took over. He became an alcoholic and was institutionalized in a mental ward but escaped his straitjacket using techniques he learned from Houdini. He then married his nurse but had no memory of it.
27. Inventor Yoshiro Nakamatsu, who has filed over 3300 patents, dives underwater till he is "0.5 seconds before death", to come up with ideas. He believes that the deprivation of oxygen helps his thinking process.
28. The opening lyrics from the Lion King’s ‘Circle of Life’ are sung in Zulu, a language which belongs to an ethnic group from Southern Africa. The lyrics translate to “There comes a lion. Oh yes, it’s a lion.”
29. The Russo Brothers were given the reins of the MCU after Marvel president Kevin Feige saw and loved the Community episode "A Fistful of Paintballs."
30. Khalid bin Mohsen Shaari, a Saudi man, who was then the heaviest person alive and the second heaviest person ever recorded at 1340lbs (610kg) in 2013, was ordered by his King to lose weight. He then lost 1195lbs, and in 2017, weighed just 150lbs (68kg).
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31Finland citizens
In Finland citizens legally have the right to the internet connection, similar to getting an education and health care.
32. There is a 1420 book that was found to have cat piss on one of its pages. The author of the manuscript even wrote on the page "Cursed be the pesty cat that urinated over this book during the night in Deventer... and beware well not to leave open books at night where cats can come."
33. In Australia when it gets very hot, the nectar in some flowers ferments and turns into alcohol. The bees get "drunk" and are not allowed back into the hive.
34. Prior to his death, Steve Irwin designed and funded a study which discovered that crocodiles can “surf” long distances across the ocean. One of the crocodiles in this study surfed 366 miles within 25 days.
35. Once a year in parts of England flying ants migrate. Seagulls catch and eat them and then become drunk off the ants' formic acid, causing them to crash into buildings and moving cars.
