26Gladiators
Gladiators didn't normally fight to the death, as they were too expensive to prepare and maintain, making it too risky of a business to sustain. For there to be a fight to the death, a sponsor would have to pay extra and also compensate the lanista for the lost gladiator.
27. An artist named Dave Soldier was hired to create "The most unwanted song" which contains bagpipes, children singing about holidays, advertising jingles, accordions, and a soprano rap. It lasts 22 minutes.
28. The Statue of Liberty walks over a broken chain and shackle, half-hidden by her robes and difficult to see from the ground. They represent freedom and the end of servitude and oppression.
29. As a child, actor Michael Berryman would be teased because of his appearance (he was born with hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia, leaving him with no sweat glands, hair, fingernails or teeth). He would go to the parents and say your children are brats and tell them they were bad parents.
30. There is a new drug named Invega Trinzatm for treating schizophrenia that consists of being given a shot 4 times a year, making it the first successful medication of its kind that doesn’t require patients to take daily pills.
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31U.S. Census Bureau
In the 1970s, the U.S. Census Bureau removed Central and South American options as nationalities because people from the Midwest and the Southern USA would mistakenly pick them.
32. "Stagecoach Mary" was the first African-American woman mail carrier in the USA. She worked the route 8 years and never missed a day. She won the contract because she was the fastest applicant to hitch a team of 6 horses (she was 60 years old at the time).
33. Canadians are entitled to receive a free flag from the government ($150 value), but the waiting period is 99 years.
34. Minnesota has been refusing to return a captured Confederate flag to Virginia for more than a century.
35. The real "Soup Nazi", Ali Yeganeh, did not like the Seinfeld character based off him. When Jerry Seinfeld visited his restaurant a few weeks after the episode aired, Seinfeld sarcastically apologized to Yeganeh. Yeganeh bellowed "no soup for you!" and ejected Seinfeld from his restaurant.
