26Jack in the Box
The CIA used to have a device called Jack in the Box, made from sex dolls cut from the shoulder down. If an agent was being tailed by the KGB, his driver would turn sharply, giving him time to hop out of the car. The driver would then deploy the device, so it would look like the agent was still in the car.
27. Joseph Bramah stared a lock company that was famed for their resistance to lock picking. The company had a “Challenge Lock” where they would pay whoever could pick the lock shall receive 200 guineas. The challenge stood for 67 years until American locksmith Alfred Hobbs finally picked it in 51 hours, spread over 16 days.
28. American president Grover Cleveland developed mouth cancer during his second term. Fearing news of this might cause financial panic, he underwent secret surgery on his friend’s yacht off the coast of Long Island, under the cover story of being on a 4-day fishing trip.
29. There are two types of lightning strikes - positive and negative. Negative accounts for 95% of lightning strikes, while positive accounts for 5%, and is much more powerful and dangerous, and is more likely to cause forest fires.
30. Two orphan South Korean Sisters named Meagan Hughes and Holly Hoyle O’Brien were separated for 40 years and were reunited while working on the same floor of the same shift in Florida Hospital.
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31Grandma Gatewood
Emma Gatewood, better known as Grandma Gatewood hiked the 2,200-mile Appalachian trail at the age of 55 bringing only Converse shoes, an army blanket, and a plastic shower curtain after reading about it in a magazine and telling her children she was going for a walk. She hiked it again at the age of 72 and 75.
32. Belgian actor Jean-Claude Van Damme was originally cast as the 'Predator', but was fired for several reasons, including that he really wanted the Predator to kickbox.
33. Matches weren't invented until 1826. As John Walker stirred a pot of chemicals, a lump formed on the end of the mixing stick. He tried scraping the dried chemicals off, igniting the stick and accidentally inventing matches.
34. Only female Anglerfish have lures and actively look for food. The males are tiny and pale and spend their entire life finding and fusing to female Anglers, where they begin to degenerate until they are little more than a pair of gonads providing sperm to the female on her command.
35. Chicken sold in supermarkets are "plumped" with water or brine before being sold, some breasts can be up to 40% water after plumping.
