1Aphantasia
Aphantasia is the lack of ability to visualize images or hear sounds in your mind
2. To protect the final Harry Potter book from leaking to the public, a 10-million pounds security operation featuring satellite tracking systems and armed security with K-9 units was used. A Scholastic lawyer also physically sat on a copy during the flight to prevent any potential loss.
3. NASA was hesitant to send women into space because they weren't sure how their periods would affect their performance, "it was theorized that a woman could be bleed to death in microgravity"
4. Depression in young people affects the stomach. Anxiety affects the skin.
5. Americans trust Judge Judy more than all nine justices of the United States Supreme Court
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6Oregon Trail Generation
A sub-generation exists called the "Oregon Trail Generation", and consists of people born in the late '70s and early '80s.
7. 14th US President, Franklin Pierce recited his 3,319-word inaugural address from memory, without the aid of notes.
8. President Theodore Roosevelt kept a pet badger in the White House
9. There is such thing as False Awakening where you think that you have awoken from a dream and proceed with your daily life but you are actually still dreaming
10. In Ontario, Canada, the disabled do not need fishing licenses. Possession of any number of disabled service documents (e.g. Parking permit, etc.) is equivalent to a fishing license.
11Gandalf
Lord of the Rings actor Ian McKellen turned down an offer of $1.5 million to officiate a wedding dressed as Gandalf, saying "I am sorry, Gandalf doesn't do weddings."
12. The Chinese word for 'superfluous', 画蛇添足 literally means to draw legs on a snake.
13. Volvo invented 3-point seatbelt and gave it away to save lives
14. The last Nazi soldiers to surrender in World War 2 did so on September 4, 1945, two days after the official Japanese surrender.
15. An astronaut named John Young smuggled a corned beef sandwich when aboarded during the first manned gemini space flight.
16Budweiser
For 150 years, whenever a new heir was born to the Annheiser-Busch brewing family, they would be fed five drops of Budweiser before even having their mothers milk
17. In 2007 Paul Boyd, an animator for cartoon series Ed Edd 'n' Eddy, was shot dead in public by police after suffering a breakdown from his bipolar disorder
18. When Winnie-the-Pooh author A.A. Milne was growing up, one of his public school teachers was H. G. Wells.
19. A road called the King's Highway was built from Boston MA to Charleston SC starting in 1650, on the order of King Charles II. Its northern section had been a Native American path for so long before that it was dug 2 feet into the ground, and it evolved into the first highways in North America.
20. Upon hearing his former Vice President John C. Calhoun's talks of secession in the 1830's, President Andrew Jackson said to him, "If you secede from my nation I will secede your head from the rest of your body."
21Taiping Rebellion
China had a civil war at the same time as the American Civil War, resulting in 30 million dead
22. In 1971, a barber by the name of Merle Robbins from Reading, Ohio invented a card game called Uno. The barber invented Uno to help resolve an argument between his sons about the rules to Crazy Eight.
23. They shot "The Karate Kid" entirely on the camcorder before they filmed it for real (and it's on youtube!)
24. Spotify has a CPR playlist. All the songs on the playlist have a tempo of 100 to 120 bpm, which is the same tempo at which one should give chest compressions during CPR. Coincidently, two of the songs are: "Another One Bites the Dust" by Queen and "Stayin' Alive" by The Bee Gees.
25. In 1988, a one-eyed pilot (Carlos Dardano) landed a Boeing 737 on a narrow grass levee after dual engine failure. No one was seriously injured. The plane was repaired at the site of the landing and remained in service until December 2016.
