26Left-handed sugar
Left-handed sugar exists. It is an artificial, mirrored variant of regular glucose which tastes exactly the same but can't be metabolized as normal. As a result, it contains very few calories, can be eaten by diabetics and doesn't promote any tooth decay.
27. 19th-century physicists couldn’t explain cats always landing on their feet because it’s impossible for a rigid body to gain angular momentum. The solution is that cats are not rigid bodies.
28. Steve Jobs and Shirley Temple are buried in unmarked graves in a Palo Alto Cemetery.
29. At the age of 13, the Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna, the youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II was one of the first known teenagers to take a mirror selfie.
30. During New Zealand's first rugby match vs England, an English player's shorts got ripped off. The NZ players formed a circle so he could change. Another Englishman picked up the ball and scored. Later the English demanded an apology after NZ criticized the referee, which was "unsportsmanlike".
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31Len Small
When Governor Len Small of Illinois was acquitted of embezzlement, eight of the jurors who made the decision received state jobs
32. Rats, dolphins and humans, are thought to have metacognition, the awareness of your ability to think.
33. Two-thirds of McDonald's total revenue in Europe comes from collecting rent
34. Low-background steel is steel made before the first nuclear bomb tests in the 40's because modern steel is contaminated with radionuclides because its production used atmospheric air
35. When Einstein died his brain went missing which was found 23 years later in the basement of a pathologist, stored in tupperware containers.
