26Nero
The Roman Emperor Nero did not play the fiddle as he watched the Great Fire burn Rome. When the fire broke out he was at his villa in Antium, 35 miles away. When he received news of the fire, he immediately rushed back to Rome to begin relief efforts.
27. Nazi Germany spent 50% more on the V2 rocket program than the U.S. did on the Manhattan Project to develop the atomic bomb.
28. The Foo Fighters and Red Hot Chili Peppers had a prank war during a tour in 1999, which finally culminated into Dave Grohl dumping 500 lbs of spaghetti on drummer Chad Smith.
29. The original Bozo the Clown (Bob Bell), who died in 1997, had vision loss in one eye but fooled doctors by memorizing the eye chart so he could serve in World War 2.
30. The Cagots were a group of people that did not differ in race, language, or culture from the people around them despite this, they were hated and persecuted for centuries, and historians still aren't sure why.
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31HMS Trident
In 1941, the crew of submarine HMS Trident was given a reindeer as a gift by the USSR navy and it spent 6 weeks aboard the submarine with them until they reached home.
32. A man was actually set on fire for the cover of Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here" album. An unexpected change in wind direction during the shoot caused stuntman Ronnie Rondell's mustache to catch on fire and burn off.
33. Michael Jackson once paid a witch doctor $150,000 to put a curse on Steven Spielberg because he didn’t give him the role of Peter Pan his fantasy film ‘Hook.’
34. When Stalin visited his mother in 1935, she asked him what he did. He said "Do you remember the tsar? Well, I'm like a tsar." His mother's response was "You'd have done better to have become a priest".
35. British actor Gareth Jones died of a heart attack while performing in a live televised play in 1958 in which his character was scripted to have a heart attack. The rest of the cast improvised around his death and finished the play.
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RE: Fact #21 (Dead Kennedys) – the picture shown is of the band The Sex Pistols. Not The Dead Kennedy’s