26Expert Wizard Amendment
The 'Expert Wizard Amendment' in New Mexico (1995) required psychiatrists and psychologists to dress up as wizards in court proceedings if they provided expert testimony. It was revealed to be satire before the vote, yet passed the New Mexico Senate unanimously. It was not signed into law.
27. It’s not a crime to escape prison in Germany and Belgium, because according to their constitution freedom is a basic human right.
28. KFC only became a success in Japan after a junior store manager made up a lie that Kentucky Fried Chicken was a staple during American Christmas.
29. The “Chinese gooseberry” was rebranded as the “kiwi fruit” when New Zealand began exporting them to the USA during the Cold War.
30. The fridge in US president’s limo is always fully stocked with his blood type.
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31Burger King Halloween Special
In 2015, people who ate the Burger King Halloween Special had their poop turn bright green. This was due to the combination of food colorings in the burger's bun, which was black for the occasion.
32. On the set of “Big Fat Liar,” where John Cho played Hong Kong director Dusty Wang, he refused to do an accent because he did not want to do an accent in a children’s comedy where young people would be laughing inadvertently at an Asian stereotype.
33. Generic SNES space shooter “Phalanx” had an old man playing banjo on the cover, not for any relation to the game itself, but purely as a marketing technique to differentiate itself in the crowded space shooter market. “Banjo man” does not appear in the game at any point.
34. In 1930, a group of Southern white women formed the Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching. By 1940, they had more than 100 chapters and 4 million members and helped elect anti-lynching candidates across the South. The association folded in 1942.
35. In 1920, a young American woman named Bessie Coleman found a financial sponsor through a newspaper, traveled to France, and learned how to become a stunt pilot. She returned to the US as the first woman in the country to hold a pilot's license. She was of African and Native American descent.
