26Geronimo
Geronimo was a prominent Apache leader and medicine man. Before he ever learned how to properly use a rifle, he would run at armed enemies in a zig-zag pattern until he was close enough to use his knife. He claimed that the mountain spirits spoke to him and said, "You will never die in battle, nor... by gun. I will guide your arrows."
27. The reason why many 90s cartoons had a shoehorned educational message for kids is because of the introduction of the 1991 "Children's Television Act" which required kid's TV programs to serve the "educational and informational" needs of children.
28. The Mapuche of South America was one of the very tribes who successfully resisting Spanish control, staying independent for over 300 years. They called the Spaniards "New Incas," because they successfully resisted the Incan Empire as well. They were only subjugated in 1883.
29. In 1714, the British government offered £20,000 (~£2 million today) to solve the longitude problem, which had cost thousands of lives due to a lack of ship positioning. A carpenter named John Harrison took up on the challenge, but it took him 40 years to make the perfect clock. His final version of the clock only lost 39.2 seconds over a voyage of 47 days.
30. Weezer's #1 hit, a cover of Africa by Toto, came to be because of a persistent 14-year-old who created a Twitter account and wouldn't stop asking the band to cover the song.
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31Pinched From Virgin Atlantic
Virgin Atlantic found that they had a problem where their passengers kept stealing their popular salt and pepper shakers. Instead of removing them from the plane, they placed the words "pinched from Virgin Atlantic" at the bottom. The shakers then became dinner table conversation pieces and free advertisements.
32. Queen Elizabeth has an official shoe-wearer who breaks in her shoes so that they won’t give her blisters.
33. Cats are neither nocturnal nor diurnal. They are crepuscular. They have a circadian rhythm such that they are most active during dusk and dawn (low-light hours).
34. Dave Thomas, who was a mentee of Colonel Sanders, came up with the idea for the rotating bucket sign and having the Colonel appear on TV. Later in life, he later sold his stake in four of his franchises back to Sanders for $1.5 million and went on to establish a chain of restaurants called Wendy's.
35. Harry Houdini had skepticism of anything mystical and had intense anger at miracle workers, spiritualists, and mediums that preyed on vulnerable people.
