26Charlie Brown Christmas
A Charlie Brown Christmas was written in several weeks, and produced on a small budget in 6 months. It was completed just 10 days before the premiere. All involved believed the special would be a disaster, with director Bill Melendez remarking after a screening, "My golly, we've killed it."
27. It was widely assumed that infants felt no pain and they routinely underwent major surgeries without anesthesia up until infant pain was formally recognized in 1987.
28. If funding had remained at 1969 Apollo mission levels, NASA planned to develop such elements as a lunar orbit station in 1978, a lunar surface base in 1980, and a manned mission to Mars in 1981 or 1983.
29. Drew Carey had eye surgery in 2001 and no longer requires glasses but continues to wear them as part of his celebrity persona.
30. Actor Robert Mitchum proposed to his wife (Dorothy Mitchum) by saying "Stick with me, kid, and you'll be farting through silk." Their marriage lasted 57 years.
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31Irish nightclub meals
In nightclubs in Ireland in the '80s and 90's the music had to be turned off and lights turned on halfway through the night because the nightclub had to serve a substantial meal by law so that the clubs could keep their alcohol license.
32. The reason snow is able to absorb sound is because it is porous. Snowflakes are six-sided crystals, and they are filled with open spaces. Those spaces absorb sound waves, creating a quieting effect over a blanket of snow.
33. In the sea between Australia and New Zealand, there's an island taller than it is wide. Ball's Pyramid only measures 300 meters across, yet peaks at 562 meters in elevation.
34. When actor Nick Frost was young his parents’ business tanked. They had to move into a neighbors’ home and his mother suffered a stroke from stress. Nick dropped out of school and worked to support his family. He was just working as a waiter when Simon Pegg cast him in the Spaced TV series.
35. For his role in the Oklahoma City Bombing (1995), Terry Nichols was sentenced to 161 life sentences plus 9300 years, without parole. His sentence is declared as the longest officially confirmed sentence ever handed down in the world.
