26Tori Amos
Singer-songwriter Tori Amos received a full scholarship to the Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University at the age of 5. She is the youngest person ever to have been admitted. At the age of 11, she was expelled for what Rolling Stone described as "musical insubordination."
27. During the industrial revolution, some children in U.K. were so poor that their schools had to lend them shoes and stamp them with a warning not to pawn them off for money or food.
28. Peregrine falcons are the fastest animals on the planet, capable of reaching speeds around 200 mph.
29. Jay-Z released "Glory" on January 9, 2012, a song dedicated to his first child, Blue Ivy Carter. Because Blue's cries were included at the end of the song and she was officially credited on the song as "B.I.C", at two days old she became the youngest person ever to appear on a Billboard chart.
30. During a UK tour in 2011, Drake spent an ‘‘obscene amount of money’’ on first editions of children’s classic books ‘Charlotte’s Web’ and ‘Winnie the Pooh’.
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31George Washington
The official manner of address for the President of the United States could have been "Highness" or "Majesty", if not for George Washington consenting that the final title be simply "Mr. President."
32. In France, it is illegal for restaurants to offer unlimited free refills of sugary drinks.
33. The median age of people who watch cable news is more than 60 years old.
34. Most people who can touch-type greater than 70 words per minute with greater than 90% accuracy, also can't correctly recite from memory the layout of their keyboard.
35. California generates so much solar energy that it has to pay other states to take the excess so that their power lines don't overload.
