26Michael Schur
Dwight's brother Mose (Michael Schur) in The Office was the producer of The Office, as well as the creator of Parks and Recreation, The Good Place and Brooklyn Nine-Nine.
27. Tesseract is the name of a real geometrical concept. It is a cube in 4-dimensional space. It is a 4D shape whose every face is a cube. Just like a cube can be unfolded into 6 squares in 2D space, a tesseract can be unfolded into 8 cubes in 3D space.
28. Wolves have arrived and now outnumber the residents of Chernobyl. They are multiplying and the overall wildlife in the area is now flourishing due to the lack of human interference and competition.
29. Spiders legs extend using hydraulic pressure from their circulatory system, and when they are crushed the legs curl in due to the loss in pressure.
30. In 2008, two pygmy whales, a mother, and a calf got stranded in a beach unable to navigate back to the ocean past a series of sandbanks. Seeing their plight a dolphin arrived and guided the whales 200 yards along the shoreline and out through a channel into the open sea.
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31Yo-Yo
A Basset Hound named Yo-Yo was kept by the master of Selwyn College in U.K. Dogs are not allowed on the premises, so Yo-Yo has been officially classified as a “very large cat” so that the master can keep him on the campus.
32. A child once turned orange from drinking too much Sunny Delight. The company used Beta-Carotene (found in carrots) to color the drink which can make you orange at extremely high doses. The girl was drinking 1.5 liters a day.
33. The kidnapping for a 4-year-old American named Charley Ross in 1874, for ransom (considered the first in US history) became a nationwide sensation. Charley, who was never found, was lured by two men offering candy and fireworks, giving rise to the warning “never take candy from strangers.”
34. A 25-year old man named Ramveer Tanwar in India has up until 2019 revived 12 dead lakes in India to fight off water scarcity.
35. Deleting a certain gene in mice can make them smarter by unlocking a mysterious region of the brain considered to be relatively inflexible. Scientists at Emory University have named this gene associated with memory and learning the "Homer Simpson gene."
