26Jubilee
As a child, Jane Goodall's father gave her a stuffed chimpanzee named Jubilee as an alternative to a teddy bear. Goodall has said her fondness for this figure started her early love of animals. Today, Jubilee still sits on Goodall's dresser in London.
27. People who drive the Oscar Mayer Wienermobiles are called Hotdoggers and only college seniors who are about to graduate are eligible to be Hotdoggers.
28. Unobtainium, a metal featured in films like "Avatar" and "The Core", was an engineering term coined in the '50s to describe any highly desirable material that is hypothetical, scientifically impossible, extremely rare, costly, or fictional.
29. American singer Merle Haggard was a 20-year-old prisoner at San Quentin when he saw Johnny Cash play his first concert for inmates in 1958. Haggard said it helped turn his life around and inspired him to be a country artist. Cash always told Haggard, “You’re everything that people think I am.”
30. The music genre “shoegaze” got its name from British critics mocking the musicians always looking down at their shoes while playing instead of the audience. In reality, the musicians had to focus on the numerous music effect pedals in their playlist.
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31Tuffy
The U.S. Navy employed a dolphin, Tuffy, to regularly deliver tools and mail to scientists living in an experimental underwater laboratory.
32. When Germany invaded Belgium in World War 1, King Albert I took personal command of the Belgian Army. He led his army for 4 years, fighting alongside his troops, while his wife, Queen Elisabeth, worked as a nurse at the front. His 12-year-old son, the Crown Prince, also fought in the ranks.
33. Rick Moranis improvised his entire Louis Tully speech in Ghostbusters at his apartment party. None of that was scripted. He decided he'd be a tax accountant and riffed all that gold. “I'm giving this whole thing as a promotional expense, that’s why I invited clients instead of friends.”
34. Sloths lose 1/3 of their body weight when they poop which happens once a week, on the ground, and in the standing position.
35. John Walker created the match by accident in 1826. He was scraping a mixture of dried chemicals off of a stick in his hearth and it caught fire. Against the advice of friends, he did not patent his idea, leading to others greatly profiting off of his invention.
