26Caesar Salad
The Caesar Salad was not named after Julius Caesar but rather its inventor, an Italian restaurateur named Cesare Cardini who created the salad in his restaurant in Tijuana, Mexico in 1924.
27. Balkan sworn virgins are women who take a vow of celibacy in order to be able to live as a man in certain Balkan nations. They could wear male clothing, inherit property, and become the head of a household. Women take the oath to escape arranged marriages and having to bear children.
28. The plasma globe was invented accidentally by an MIT undergrad, who was working in a lab to create electrical rocket engines. Right after inventing it, he naturally brought it to his girlfriend’s house party.
29. It is theoretically possible to send a paper plane from the ISS to earth, without the planes burning upon reentry. An experiment was scheduled but unfortunately canceled.
30. Researchers have found that naturally occurring lithium in water supply lowered suicide rates. They were able to measure lithium levels in 27 Texas counties and it showed that in counties with more lithium in their water had fewer suicides. Similar studies in Greece, Austria, and Japan corroborated the results.
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31Moken Tribe Kids
Children belonging to the Moken tribe of Thailand have perfect vision underwater. They do is by constricting their pupils and changing their lens shape, just like dolphins and seals. They use this ability to hunt for fish, clam, and shells to eat.
32. Due to a 1700% increase in bank robberies during the Great Depression, the Texas Bankers Association created the Dead Bank Robbers Reward Program, paying $5000 to anyone who killed a robber during the crime, no questions asked.
33. The Montréal–Mirabel International Airport in which the movie “The Terminal” starring Tom Hanks was shot was a massive failure. Traffic predictions were grossly overestimated, the highways to link it to Montréal were never built and its terminal was insulated with asbestos. The terminal was destroyed in 2016 after it didn’t receive any passengers since 2004.
34. A bacterium that does photosynthesis without sunlight exists that uses thermal “black-body” radiation. It was discovered in 2005 on a deep-sea hydrothermal vent, at a depth of 2400 meters, in complete darkness.
35. There is a blood type called “RH null”, which is called “golden blood”. This blood is so rare that only 43 people worldwide have it. Its properties make it attractive in numerous medical applications and make it very valuable.
