26Usain Bolt
Usain Bolt suffered from scoliosis when he was younger and he therefore has an asymmetrical stride when he runs because his legs are slightly different lengths. Researchers aren’t sure if this lack of symmetry is a personal mechanical optimization by Bolt that makes him the fastest human or not.
27. Crickets are 65%-70% protein whereas beef is 17%-40% protein.
28. Before the Internet, chess players used to play each other all over the world by taking turns mailing a postcard to each other describing the move they had made.
29. An indentured servant boy named John Howland went overboard on The Mayflower and was miraculously saved. His descendants include the Bush family, FDR, writers Emerson and Longfellow, Brigham Young and Joseph Smith, Chevy Chase, and over 2 million other Americans.
30. Jeremy Spencer, who was one of the original members of Fleetwood Mac went out to a store while on tour in California in 1971 and never returned. The band, record producers, and the police searched for him for several days and discovered later that he had joined a cult called ‘The Children of God.’
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31Japanese heist
In 1968, in Japan, a fake motorbike cop stopped a car carrying 300 million Yen in cash ($26 million). He told the driver to run because the car was rigged to blow and then simply drove the car away. The culprit and the cash have never been found.
32. In 2009, the film Braveheart was second on a list of "most historically inaccurate movies" in The Times.
33. In 2015, a doctor on an Air Canada flight jerry-rigged a device to help a toddler breathe who was having asthma attack. Dr. Khurshid Guru, director of Robotic Surgery at the Roswell Park Cancer Institute, created a nebulizer using a water bottle, a cup, oxygen, and an adult inhaler.
34. In 1966, after failing for 3 years to extinguish a gas well fire, Soviet authorities decided to use a 30kt atomic bomb. It was detonated at a depth of 1,500 meters crushing the well and extinguishing the flames in seconds. Following this success, the same technique was used on 4 other well fires.
35. In the Philippines, some Catholics volunteer to be non-lethally crucified on Good Friday. The sterilized nails are driven through their palms and they are hung on crosses. A Filipino carpenter named Ruben Enaje has been crucified 32 times as of 2018. Philippines Department of Health advises tetanus shots before the crucifixion.
