26Minnie Freeman
In 1888, a teacher named Minnie Freeman saved all of her students after a freak blizzard struck in Nebraska. The winds were so strong that the roof and the door just blew off of the school. She saved them by using a rope. She tied the kids together and trekked over a mile in whiteout conditions to the closest farmhouse.
27. The film "The Killing Fields" cast a real-life survivor of the Cambodian Genocide. Haing S. Ngor survived three terms in Cambodian Prison camp by eating insects. He went on to win an Academy Award for supporting actor. His fate ended by being murdered by an LA street gang in 1996.
28. On American metal band Tool's 1996 album, Ænima, there is an aggressive and intimidation song sung in German titled "Die Eier Von Satan" ("The Balls Of Satan"). However, when translated to English, the lyrics reveal themselves to be a recipe for hashish sugar cookies.
29. There is a library in Ankara, Turkey comprised entirely of discarded books trash collectors rescued from landfills. The collection grew so large the library now loans the salvaged books to schools, educational programs, and even prisons.
30. There is a man named Ioannis Ikonomou in the European Commission who works as a translator and can speak 47 languages, including 21 of the 24 EU official languages. He can also speak dead languages like Old Church Slavic.
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31Matt Murphy
Matt Murphy, the man who caught Barry Bonds' record-breaking 756th home run ball, sold the ball for $752,467 and gave half to Amir Kamal, the friend he was at the game with.
32. Steve Martin's wedding came as a surprise to his guests. The roughly 75 star-studded attendees (including the likes of Tom Hanks, Diane Keaton, Eugene Levy, and Carl Reiner) said that he had invited them to his house just for a "party." To their shock, upon their arrival, his wedding began.
33. Disney's 1994 film The Lion King was made by their B-team of animators. The company expected Pocahontas to be the bigger hit and had their A-team make that movie.
34. A 7-year-old boy named Tyler Moon walked 1 km (0.6 miles) through a forest to save his father’s life after their quad crashed. Tyler made the journey to get help despite his own injuries. He suffered from two collapsed lungs filling with blood and seven broken ribs. He managed to alert help just in time before collapsing himself. Both of them survived.
35. In 1951, Thelma Howard was hired as a maid for Walt and Lillian Disney. Walt would gift her shares of Disney stock every X-mas for the next 30 years. When she died in 1994 it was discovered that she still had all of the 192,000 shares which were valued at that time at $9,000,000. It went to disadvantaged kids and her disabled son.
