26Bears
There are only 8 species of bears in the world: brown bears, Asian black bears, American black bears, sun bears, sloth bears, spectacled bears, polar bears, and giant pandas.
27. In order to supply water to the parks of the Palace of Versailles, Louis XIV ordered the construction of the Machine of Marly to pump water from the Seine located 10 km from the castle with an ascend of 150 meters. This machine was considered one of the most complexes pieces of engineering of its time and worked for 133 years.
28. In 1964, British Prime Minister Alec Douglas-Home was almost kidnapped by two students with political motivations. He persuaded them not to by pointing out that his kidnapping would ensure a Conservative victory in next election, gave the two a case of beer, and bid them goodnight.
29. North Korea filmed a movie named Silver Hairpin in Japan in 1985, aimed at showing the oppression of Koreans in Japan. North Koreans, instead, drew the conclusion that Koreans were better off in Japan.
30. Blowing out birthday candles increases bacteria on cake by 1,400%.
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31Voles
Voles comfort each other when mistreated. Also, the comforting voles have the same level of stress hormone of the mistreated one, suggesting that voles are capable of empathy.
32. American-Canadian actor Dan Aykroyd has Tourette's and Asperger's and was born with webbed toes and two different colored eyes. He also has strange obsessions with law enforcement and ghosts, which later led to the idea for Ghostbusters.
33. In 1969, American actor Samuel Jackson was expelled from Morehouse College for holding the board of trustees hostage along with MLK Sr., demanding reform in the school's curriculum and governance. His mother, afraid of him becoming a person of interest for the FBI, sent him to LA where he began acting.
34. During the initial release of Doom, so many people tried to download it at once that it crashed the entire University of Wisconsin's network.
35. The last thing on BBC Television before it was switched off on the eve of the Second World War was a Mickey Mouse show which was aired at around 12.35pm on 1st September 1939. Seven years later BBC Television returned with a repeat of the same Mickey Mouse program.
