26Women and children first
"Women and children first" when evacuating a sinking ship has never been maritime law. It is more common for men to survive shipwrecks than women, and children have the lowest chances of survival. The Titanic is an exception; 75% of women survived compared to only 17% of men.
27. Actor Sam Elliott -- known for his full mustache, and deep, resonant voice -- voices Smokey the Bear in the iconic character's public service announcements, and that the two share the same birthday: Smokey was first introduced on August 9, 1944, the same day Elliott was born.
28. The Canadian province of Alberta basically has no permanent Norway Rat (a species of rat) population because they have an incredibly aggressive rat control program. It includes a hotline to call if you ever actually see a rat in the province.
29. In the past few years, at the same time that the NFL's "Super Bowl" is being played, the Aquarium of the Pacific (in the Californian city of Long Beach) holds the "Otter Bowl", with the otters playing with footballs made from frozen clams.
30. In 1971, the Robertson family set sail round the world on their boat Lucette. In the middle of the Pacific ocean, a school of killer whales capsized them. They survived by taking enemas of turtle blood and rainwater collected in the bottom of their lifeboat. Drinking the mixture orally would have been poisonous and led to their deaths. They were rescued after 37 days.
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31Kaizen
“Kaizen” is a Japanese work philosophy where people constantly seek to find ways to improve methods instead of just doing it the same way.
32. Griselda Blanco was a Colombian drug lord of the Medellín Cartel. She pioneered the Miami cocaine drug trade and underworld during the 1980s through the early 2000s. It has been estimated that she was responsible for up to 2000 murders while transporting cocaine. She was shot and killed in 2012.
33. A woman named Margaret Corbin fought in the American Revolutionary War. During the Battle of Fort Washington, when her husband fell in action, she took control of the cannon and fired well-aimed shots at the enemy before being seriously wounded. She later became the first woman in U.S. history to receive a pension from Congress for military service.
34. The oldest ever archaeological site on earth was found in 2011. It was named Lomekwi 3 and was dated to be 3.3 million years old, which is 700,000 years older than previous stone tools discovered and predates the genus Homo by 500,000 years. Around 150 artifacts found.
35. A serial killer named Carroll Cole was responsible for the deaths of at least 15 women. He killed his first victim at just 8 years of age, drowning a classmate in a lake. The death was thought to have been an accident until he confessed about it in an autobiography he wrote in prison.
