1Ros Sereysothea
Ros Sereysothea, a Cambodian rock singer who was given the title of "The Queen of the Golden Voice" vanished completely without a trace under the reign of the Khmer Rouge.
2. UPS drivers wore green uniforms when they started in West Germany because the locals associated the "brown shirts" with the Nazis.
3. Roughly 2200 people are bitten by Black Widow spiders in the US each year. Zero of these recorded bites in the last century have resulted in fatalities.
4. When Cadillac engineers disassembled a 1990 Lexus LS400 for engineering analysis, they concluded that the vehicle simply could not be built using existing General Motors production methods.
5. The law which makes it illegal to profit from illicitly-obtained commodity reports is called "The Eddie Murphy Rule."
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6Genetics
Humans are 99.9% genetically similar to other humans; 96% genetically similar to chimpanzees; 90% genetically similar to cats; 85% genetically similar to mice; 80% genetically similar to cows; 61% genetically similar to chickens; and 60% genetically similar to bananas.
7. The plain grey T-shirt that Mark Zuckerburg wears all the time costs between $300 and $400.
8. The movies 'Dumb and Dumber To' and 'Daddy's Home' were funded using money stolen from a Malaysian government investment fund.
9. During the Edo period in Japan, which lasted from 1603 to 1868, high-ranking Japanese women hired servants called heoibikuni to take the blame when they farted.
10. Charlie Daniels, the writer of "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" hated its depiction in Guitar Hero 3 because the Devil was capable of defeating the player.
11Allentown Contest
From 1982-1983, three men in Allentown, PA competed in a radio contest in which they lived on top of a billboard in tents. Whoever stayed up longest would win a house. Due to economic pressure from the recession, none of the contestants wanted to give up, so the contest lasted almost 9 months.
12. The original title of Saturday Night Live was "NBC's Saturday Night", due to the existence of an ABC show titled "Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell". This is why the famous opening phrase is worded "Live from New York, it's Saturday Night!".
13. Studies have shown that 47% of adult male prisoners have a history of traumatic brain injury. Over two-thirds had their first brain injury before their first offense.
14. The actor of Scruff McGruff was arrested in 2011 for possession of 1000 marijuana plants, 9000 rounds of ammunition, and 27 weapons including a grenade launcher.
15. The original lightsaber prop used in Star Wars by Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker is inside the International Space Station and was flown by STS-120 in August 2007.
16Ant Naps
Worker ants take hundreds of 1-2 minute naps per day so that they can essentially work around the clock.
17. German nationalists in the 1930s created their own version of physics because real physics was too Jewish.
18. All Space Shuttle flights were outfitted with explosives that an Air Force officer would detonate if the Shuttle veered off course & endangered a populated area.
19. A grandma named Grietje Scott kept an interesting secret for over 90 years from her family. At the age of 90, she revealed that she was actually a highly decorated member of the Dutch underground during WWII and was part of an elite fighting force.
20. In 2003, Baltimore assistant attorney Jonathan Luna was found stabbed 36 times, his hands, scrotum, and throat slashed. Nevertheless, the FBI theorized that he committed suicide.
21Diego
Diego, the 'unstoppable sex tortoise' is 100 years old, lives on the Galapagos archipelago and has fathered over 800 tortoises.
22. George Harrison wrote his last ever letter to actor Mike Myers. In the letter, he praised the Austin Powers movies and told Mike about his Dr. Evil doll. Mike received the letter on November 29th, 2001, the date of Harrison's demise.
23. Friedrich Wilhelm I, the King of Prussia had a personal army of 3000 tall men and admitted that "The most beautiful girl or woman in the world would be a matter of indifference to me, but tall soldiers—they are my weakness"
24. Actor Jon Heder’s famous dance finale in the cultural phenomenon comedy movie "Napoleon Dynamite" was shot with a roll of about 10 minutes of film left. Heder danced three times, and the entire dance sequence in the final cut was taken from those. The film earned $46 million from a budget of $400,000.
25. Michael Keaton, a longtime Pittsburgh resident, and fan of its sports teams negotiated a break in his Batman movie contract in case the Pirates made the playoffs that year. "They thought I was kidding," he said. "I wasn't."
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RE: Fact #19 (Grietje Scott ) – I don’t think she kept the secret for 90 years if she was 90 when she revealed it; unless she joined the underground the day she was born.