26Dolly Parton
Dolly Parton's "Jolene" is about a red-headed clerk who had a crush on her husband, but the song is named after one of her fans. Dolly told her, "That is pretty. That sounds like a song. I'm going to write a song about that."
27. The London 2012 Summer Olympic Committee contacted 'The Who' manager Bill Curbishley about Keith Moon performing at the games, 34 years after his death. Curbishley said "I emailed back saying Keith now resides in Golders Green crematorium, having lived up to the line 'I hope I die before I get old'.
28. In 2014, English drummer Phil Collins donated the world's largest private collection of Alamo artifacts to the state of Texas. It included a fringed leather pouch and a gun used by Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie's legendary knife.
29. A doctor named Robert Liston once performed a surgery with 300% mortality rate. In 1846, during an amputation, Dr. Robert Liston accidentally cut his assistant's fingers off and later slashed an observer's coat. The observer, thinking he'd been stabbed, dropped dead of shock, and the patient and assistant died afterward of infected wounds.
30. Chicago has a large pack of coyotes that patrol the city, hunting rats.
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31Fake cocaine
The fake cocaine actors snort on film is vitamin B powder, a common cutting agent for real cocaine.
32. Road damage mostly results from trucks and buses. The damage a vehicle causes is proportional to the axle load raised to the fourth power, so doubling the weight an axle carries actually causes 16 times as much damage.
33. Michael Buffer, the "Let's get ready to rumble" guy had the phrase trademarked and as of 2009 it has generated $400 million in revenue for him.
34. Saguaro National Park's cacti have ids with microchips implanted in them to prevent theft.
35. Actor Kenny Baker who operated R2-D2 (from inside) in Star Wars franchise hated the actor (Anthony Daniels) who played C-3PO, calling him "the rudest man I've ever met."
