26Speed-dating events
The Japanese government has been hosting speed-dating events in hopes of increasing marriage which hopefully will lead to more children as the country’s population has dropped by more than 1 million since 2010.
27. When Robin Williams auditioned for the part of Mork, an extraterrestrial from the planet Ork, Williams sat on his head when offered a chair. He was hired on the spot, the producer later commenting “Williams was the only alien who auditioned for the role.”
28. During Prohibition, moonshiners would wear "cow shoes." The fancy footwear left hoofprints instead of human shoe prints, helping distillers and smugglers evade police.
29. In 1986, Harrods, a small restaurant in the town of Otorohanga, New Zealand, was threatened with a lawsuit by the famous department store of the same name. In response, the town changed its name to Harrodsville and renamed all of its businesses to ‘Harrods.’
30. There are contact lenses that are worn overnight which temporarily reshape the cornea, allowing the user to have a perfect vision during the day without having to wear glasses/contact lenses.
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31Emergency Broadcast System alert
It is illegal to include the Emergency Broadcast system alert tones in any broadcast media in any context unless it's coming through the actual Emergency Broadcast System. Even when remixed to sound different, networks can be fined thousands of dollars for each time the tone is broadcast.
32. Sir David Attenborough is the only person to win a BAFTA for a programme in black and white, color, HD, 3D, and 4K.
33. Wilgefortis was a female saint whose distinguishing feature is a large beard, which grew after she prayed God to make her repulsive in order to avoid an unwanted marriage. She is the patron saint of women seeking the refuge of abusive husbands, and the patron saint of facial hair.
34. A member of Al Capone's gang promised federal agent Eliot Ness that $1000 (around $33,000 in 2018 adjusting for inflatin) would be on his desk every Monday if he turned a blind eye to their bootlegging. Ness refused the bribe and in later years he struggled with money. He died almost broke at the age of 54.
35. In 1989, then Prime Minister of Japan Sōsuke Uno resigned after a geisha revealed she had an extramarital affair with him. The key to the scandal wasn't morality, but that he had failed to properly provide and support his mistress with an appropriate amount, and was branded as a stingy man.
