26Robocop
Even though it's set in Detroit, the Robocop movie was actually filmed in Dallas. The only real shot of Detroit in the entire movie is the aerial shot in the opening, and that was a stock footage.
27. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. knew about defective RV tire that had caused deaths and continues to cover up the fact 20 years later using protective court orders.
28. Sesame Street introduced Julia, the first Sesame Street muppet with autism, to raise awareness about autism among children.
29. Israel is considered a global leader in medical cannabis research and innovation. Citizens caught using cannabis in public aren’t arrested but face fines, with the money collected from these fines going towards education and rehabilitation programs and it does not result in a criminal record.
30. The Hubble Space Telescope consumes less power than a kitchen kettle.
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31Nixon tapes
The infamous 18-1/2 minute gap in the Nixon tapes was not one gap, but five to nine separate erasures. The tape is preserved in the National Archives in the hope that we may someday recover what was erased.
32. Judy was a hero dog of World War 2, who saved her fellow soldiers on multiple occasions. She was captured by the Japanese and spent years in the POW camps. She survived multiple ship sinkings and was eventually freed and given the Dickin Medal in England.
33. NASA is planning to send a submarine to explore the depths of Kraken Mare in the methane sea of Titan, the largest moon of Saturn.
34. John Wilkes Booth's brother, Edwin Booth, was once considered the greatest American actor. He once saved the life of Abraham Lincoln's son Robert Todd Lincoln. The incident took place on a train platform in Jersey City, New Jersey.
35. Serhii Koroliov, before he became the head engineer of the soviet space program, was sent to a GULAG in 1939 as part of the Great Purge, where he was imprisoned and tortured for 6 years. He was instrumental in sending Yuri Gagarin to space. The other rocket scientists he was arrested with were executed. His death in 1966 was related to injuries/illness caused by his time in the Gulag. It set back the Soviet space program enough that USA beat them to the moon.
