26King Gillette
King Gillette, who founded Gillette razors, believed that everyone in the United States should live in a giant city called Metropolis powered by Niagara Falls.
27. Ernest Thompson Seton, one of the founding pioneers of the Boy Scouts of America, was presented with an invoice for all the expenses connected with his childhood, by his father, including the fee charged by the doctor who delivered him. He paid the bill, but never spoke to his father again.
28. Japan has a sociological phenomena known as Hikikomori, in which there is an estimated 1 million Japanese who choose to completely isolate themselves from society.
29. In 1967, Elton John answered an advertisement for a talent search. After failing the audition he told the person behind the desk that he can't write lyrics. He was handed an envelope with lyrics by another person who also answered the advertisement and had failed the audition. He was Bernie Taupin, who then went on to write the majority of Elton's songs.
30. Honey bees let out a ‘whoop’ when they bump into each other. This vibrational pulse, long thought to be a signal to other bees to stop what they are doing, might actually be an expression of surprise.
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31Red Lobster
Bill Darden (the founder of Red Lobster) opened his first restaurant, a luncheonette called The Green Frog in Wayward, Georgia at the age of 19 in 1938. He refused to segregate customers by race. Segregation was a state law in 30’s Georgia.
32. World War 2 Medal of Honor recipient Van T. Barfoot once publicly embarrassed a sitting US senator Theodore G. Bilbo, who was a KKK member. Senator had asked Barfoot if he had much trouble with the African-American soldiers he had served with during the war. To Bilbo's embarrassment, Barfoot publicly praised the efforts of African-American veterans.
33. Arnold Schwarzenegger's parents used to beat him because they thought he was gay since his bedroom walls were covered with posters of men instead of women.
34. Naked mole rats can survive 18 minutes without oxygen and suffer no lasting effects. They achieve this feat by switching their metabolism to use fructose, instead of glucose, something typically only done by plants.
35. Donnie Darko was filmed in 28 days which, coincidentally, virtually matches the time that transpired in the film. The movie took place between October 2nd, 1988 to the weekend party scene before Halloween on October 31st, 1988.
