26Newborn Water Content
At birth, a newborn baby is made up of 75% water, slightly more than bananas but slightly less than potatoes.
27. In Chinese folk religion, a person could attain godhood not through a clergy's decision but by the sheer number of believers. People who achieved extraordinary feats could be canonized as gods, which pressured Confucian and Taoist clerics to legitimize their godhood.
28. In 1988, Tom Cruise starred in two films, Rain Man and Cocktail, which received opposite critical receptions. While Rain Man won the Oscar for Best Picture, Cocktail was awarded the Razzie for Worst Picture. Cruise is the only actor to receive both distinctions in the same year.
29. A special law was introduced in 1987 in the UK to ensure that the Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital would forever be able to collect royalties from stage performances, audiobooks, book releases, and other productions of Peter Pan in the UK. This is because JM Barrie gifted Peter Pan's rights to Great Ormond Street Hospital, and his copyright expired in 1987. This is the only work with an "exception" to copyright laws.
30. The Aristocrats joke gained public attention when Gilbert Gottfried told it in an attempt to win back the audience after his 9/11 joke at the Friar's Club was poorly received. This happened 18 days after the attack.
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31"Cried All the Way to the Bank"
The saying "cried all the way to the bank" is popularly attributed to Liberace, who famously wrote the phrase in a telegram after winning a libel suit against a reporter who had insinuated that Liberace was homosexual.
32. Beethoven's 3rd Symphony was initially his tribute to Napoleon, whom he admired. However, when Napoleon crowned himself emperor in 1804, Beethoven angrily declared that Napoleon had become a tyrant and erased his name from the score's title page.
33. Bothie the Polar Dog is the only dog to have traveled to both the North and South Poles. No other dog is expected to match Bothie's achievement after the Antarctic Treaty of 1994, which forbids dogs from going to the Antarctic continent.
34. Hippos have a unique reflex mechanism that allows them to pop up, take a breath, and go back down without waking up so that they can sleep underwater.
35. The late president of Nintendo, Hiroshi Yamauchi, owned the Seattle Mariners baseball team, despite never having attended a baseball game before buying the team. Despite owning the Mariners for over 20 years, he never once attended a single one of their games.
