1Tashirojima (Cat island)
In Tashirojima, Japan, cats have come to outnumber humans. Cats have long been thought by the locals to represent luck and good fortune. Thus, the cats are treated like kings, and although most are feral because keeping them as “pets” is generally considered inappropriate.
2. Martin James Monti was the only U.S. Army officer to defect to the Nazis in World War 2. The young flying officer saw Nazi Germany as the best hope for stopping what he saw as the real threat to world peace: Bolshevism.
3. Seán Heuston, during the Irish 1916 rising was only suppose to hold the Mendicity Institution for 3-4 hours but held it for over two days with only 26 Volunteers against four hundred British Soldiers.
4. Cobblers repair shoes, cordwainers make shoes.
5. At 3 pm each Memorial Day, Americans everywhere are encouraged to pause for one minute to remember and reflect on the sacrifices made by the fallen known as the National Moment of Remembrance
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6Pizzle
In 1579, a war almost started due to a bear's p*nis being accidentally omitted from a coat of arms.
7. At least eight divers have died exploring the underwater caves of Jacob's Well in Central Texas, making it one of the most dangerous diving spots in the world
8. In 2015, public pressure and outraged historians convinced the US Treasury to reverse its decision to replace Alexander Hamilton on the $10 bill with a woman. Instead, the back of the bill will now be amended to show five leaders of women’s suffrage, plus a view of the 1913 parade in Washington.
9. A Coronal mass ejection barely missed Earth in 2012 which would have caused $2 trillion in damages. There is a 12% chance one will hit by 2022.
10. Vice President Hannibal Hamlin was called to active duty in the Maine militia in the summer of 1864, during his vice presidency. He served as a guard and a cook and was promoted to corporal before he was discharged.
11Charles Downes disappearance
Charlene Downes was a victim of child grooming who disappeared in 2003. Her body was never found but the kebab shop owners who had been grooming her were overheard joking about how she "went into the kebabs".
12. The official state gem of Washington is petrified wood
13. In Rocky (1976), Rocky 2 (1979), and Rocky Balboa (2006), Rocky's pet turtles Cuff and Link were the same two turtles each time.
14. Technically Return of the Jedi never made a profit
15. There is a salt dumping ground (Monte Kali) in Germany that has formed an actual mountain and is poisoning the surrounding environment.
16Glass harmonica
The glass harmonica is considered by some to be the world's most dangerous instrument credited with unexplained deaths as well as causing Tinnitus and mental breakdowns
17. Jeans when first dyed are yellow due to the yellow color of water soluble leucoindigo, which then oxidizes to the blue color of indigo on jeans.
18. In 2014, a New York hospital came under fire after incorrectly declaring a woman as brain dead following a drug overdose. The woman awoke shortly after being taken to the operating room for organ harvesting.
19. Ernst Loof has the record holder for the shortest F1 career. In his first, and last, Grand Prix, he traveled 6 feet (2 meters) off the starting grid before retiring due to a malfunction.
20. Jaime Sin, the 30th Roman Catholic Archbishop, and Cardinal loved poking fun at his own name. Cardinal Sin would joke with guests, saying, "Welcome to the house of Sin." His title Cardinal Sin was a point of humor in the Philippines.
21Letters
People in the USA can send letters by leaving it in their own house mailbox, and the mailman will pick it up on their delivery route
22. Unisex names are illegal in Iceland
23. A Nazi businessman named John Rabe (Oskar Schindler of China) saved approximately 200,000 Chinese citizens during the Nanking Massacre.
24. Frozen was based on a 19th-century tale that was more progressive because a girl rescues a boy
25. Due to the massive success and popularity of Eminem's "Stan", the Oxford Dictionary made a definition of "Stan" - 'an obsessive fan of a particular celebrity'
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RE: Fact #9 (Coronal Mass Ejection) – no it didn’t